wesort

We-Sorts is an archaic nickname for people of "mixed-race" origins who currently claim descent from the Piscataway Native American population in Charles County, Maryland. Today, one can find many people, particularly with the surnames Proctor, Savoy, Queen, Butler, Thompson, Swann (and others) who have that heritage, with appearance suggesting a mixture of European, Native American and Black American ancestry in the minds of many. A local joke by some members of the present day Piscataway nation is that the proper name of the tribe is "Wesorts" - as in "we sorts of Black, we sorts of Indian." Wayne Carlin's novel The Wished For Country fictionalizes the origins of the We-Sorts.

External links

• The Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians
• Piscataway Indian Nation
• Piscataway Indians - Catholic Encyclopedia
• Ethnic Identity Movements and the Legal Process: The Piscataway Revival
• Leah C. Sims (2005). Unraveling a Deceptive Oral History: The Indian Ancestry Claims of Philip S. Proctor and His Descendants

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