Monday, March 12, 2007


MARSHES ALONG THE RIVER AT SUNSET
Near Chief Turkey Tayac's Home on the Potomac River. Tayac was chief of the Piscataway Nation and is buried across the Potomac from Mt. Vernon. Once grown to adulthood, the chief of the Piscataway Indian Nation began using the surname, "Tayac," because the name itself was part of his family's oral history. Turkey Tayac's family traced their descent from a long line of Piscataway chiefs, traditionally called "tayacs." But, by the time Turkey Tayac was born, only a few Piscataway families remained to remember and transmit knowledge of their own vibrant Native American heritage. One can access the park and burial grounds near Accokeek, Maryland, not far from Hard Bargain Farm

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