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The Accohannock as a Native American Indian Tribe of Maryland,with current headquarters located in Marion Station, Somerset County, Maryland, are a relatively recent organization with its roots in the come from the late, Annabelle Ross McKay Bradshaw, who re-christened herself Clan Mother Head-of-the-Arrow. Subsequently her mother, the late Lois Eileen Hall McKay Carey, became Clan Mother Praying-, Clan Mother Praying-Warrior was intrumental in elevating her brother Laughing Otter to the such an oral family tradition. It should further be noted that repeated requests for historical, indeed any, documentation of these claims, bloodlines, & oral history (from both individuals and local groups concerned with area history) have been met with silence. ]
Although Native Americans originally inhabited the territory that presently includes the Eastern Shore of

Little historical information exists to show any of the Native Americans of the DelMarVa peninsula referring to themselves as the Accohannock Indian Tribe. Native Americans of the area were Algonquian-speaking but, there was no "Accomac Confederation" -- or any "Confederation" on the Eastern Shore. At one time there was a paramount chief of the Accomacks, but for the most part Native Americans in the area grouped themselve under various hereditary rulers, both male & female, whose power/influence was confined locally.

Colonial policy in the seventeeth (not fifteenth, i.e. the 1400's when no European settlers were in the area, if indeed in North America) century may indeed have weakened and dismantled the native culture resulting in the loss of territory, self-government and other cultural aspects; but it would not have affected an Accohannock Tribe, since such a tribe did not exist at that time. (For a good synopis of local history please check out THE ASSATEAGUE INDIANS: WHAT BECAME OF THEM?http://www.ocmuseum.org/articles/indians.asp).

Historically, Native Americans of the area were hunters, trappers, fisherman, and farmers making use of the indigenous resources of the area.

The group referring to itself as the Accohannock tribe is currently a 'non-federally recognized tribe incorporated in the state of Maryland. It is of interest to note that there is another similar groupin the area calling itself the Occohannock Tribe, yet another group calling itself the Pocomoke, and one of the oldest, historical groups, the Nanticoke.