Talk:Nacotchtank

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Error about White House artifacts; Article name should be changed
Hello,

I am not adept at editing in wiki, so I'd appreciate help from a current editor on this page to make the following corrections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacotchtank

In the Geography section, paragraph 3:

"Proudfit studied the excavation that was performed when the swimming pool was being constructed in the White House, which is relatively inland from any of the Nacotchtank river settlements. Analysis of the terrain that was dug up proved indigenous existence on the site, with findings such as quartzite points, a broken biface, and fragments of broken pottery."

Proudfit was not involved with the White House artifacts. They were found in 1975 and 1976. Proudfit was born in 1846, died in the early 1900s. As noted in the text of this current citation (Chambers & Humphrey, 1985, see below), Robert Marshall, a curator with the National Park Service found one artifact in the swimming pool debris, which led to the screening of the debris to reveal 17 pieces of stone artifacts and pottery. An estimate of their age suggests they were made about 2000 years in the past. Those Natives would be the ancestors of the Anacostan tribe (the better name for the tribe, see below).

Chambers, Mary Elizabeth; Humphrey, Robert L. (1985). "Ancient Washington: American Indian Cultures of the Potomac Valley". GW Washington Studies. 6: 30.

I have a previous post in this talk section about the tribe name. The title of this wiki post is "Nacotchtank," one of the many variations on the original name on the Smith map, "Nacotchtanck." The map makers seem to have misheard the Natives. When Fr. Andrew White studied Piscataway in the 1630s, he clarified the origens of the tribe name: anacosh-tanik, as the current summary mentions. But he wasn't trying to "latinize" the word.

As a recent observation about how quickly the map name dropped from use - The 1666 Articles of Peace and Amity name the tribe, Anacostanck. The map name wasn't used. This blog entry discusses the tribe name in detail. http://nativevillagemarker.blogspot.com/2023/04/in-1666-treaty-anacostaub-was-used-as.html The common error of starting with the map name, which I originally made, and this wiki entry is perpetuating, is addressed in that post.

Thanks for any help!

Armand

http://onceasitwasdc.org/ Armandlione (talk) 13:42, 18 May 2023 (UTC)