Piscataway people

Despite his chatbot level of certainty, Smith pretty much misread the whole thing.

And we know this because of Dr. Gabriel Tayak, historian and curator of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, a member of the very Piscataway tribe Smith encountered over 400 years ago.

This is from her 1999 book, Spirits in the River.

Okee's actual severity in the Piscataway viewpoint can be questioned.

Perhaps Okee was the balance to Manet, not a cultural cognate to the devil as Jesuits were looking for when they recorded his presence.

Often missionaries searched for Christian counterparts to God and the devil within indigenous religious traditions.

The figure's arms pointing in opposite directions are not showing good and evil.

They're showing the two aspects of divinity that must be held in tension for the universe to function.

And we're recording Plate Mark in Baltimore, Maryland, the land of the...

Piscataway Conoy people.

Correct.

Well, hi, Ann.

Her debut book, 70,000 Poems, was chosen by the American Booksellers Association for the Summer/Fall 2026 Indies Introduce and July 2026 Indies Next List.

She lives in Washington, DC, on ancestral lands of the Nacotchtank and Piscataway peoples.

Hi, Lena.

Welcome to the pod.

Motion has been properly carried.

We recognize we seek to recognize that today we set on the lands of the Piscataway, Kanoi people who have lived, farmed, and cared for this land for thousands of years.

That's an acknowledgment to the Piscataway Indians, or the Piscataway, Kanoi people, I'm sorry.

We don't have any personal appearances this afternoon.

We do not have development plan reviews this afternoon.

This was sort of going in, I think, initially just talking about how localities have been involved to date and why, you know, what is changing essentially.

I'd

say the correction for the, it's Piscataway Indian Nation and Piscataway Kanoi Tribes.

It was written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz and written by Tony Warmbie.

And this episode takes place in Washington, D.C., That is the ancestral homeland to Piscataway and Anacostan, as well as Bethesda, Maryland, which is Conoy, Piscataway.

And we find that information at native-land.ca.

Awesome.

Honest mistake.

But then I started thinking that someone told me, "No, no, they were called the Piscataway Indians." I'm like, "I don't want to hear this anymore."

[laughs]

Uh, and that's the game where, uh-