Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory

Piscataway Indian Nation Inc.

Billy Tayac, hereditary chief of the Piscataway Indian Nation And Tayac Territory in 2012
Type	501(c)(3) organization
Tax ID no.	52-1272235
Headquarters	Port Tobacco, Maryland
Location	United States
Membership	103
Official language	English

The Piscataway Indian Nation (/pɪsˈkætəˌweɪ/ or /pɪskəˈtɑːwə/,^[1]), also called Piscataway Indian Nation Inc. is a state-recognized tribe in Maryland^[2] who identify as descendants of the historic Piscataway people.^[3] At the time of European encounter, the Piscataway was one of the most populous and powerful Native polities of the Chesapeake Bay region, with a territory on the north side of the Potomac River. By the early seventeenth century, the Piscataway had come to exercise hegemony over other Algonquian-speaking Native American groups on the north bank of the river. The Piscataway nation declined dramatically before the nineteenth century, under the influence of colonization, infectious disease, and intertribal and colonial warfare.

The Piscataway Indian Nation organized out of a 20th-century revival of its people and culture. Its members are committed to Indigenous and human rights. It is one of three contemporary organized groups of self-identified Piscataway descendants.

On January 12, 2012, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley issued an Executive Order^[4] recognizing both the Piscataway Indian Nation and the Piscataway Conoy Tribe as Indian groups under a process established by the General Assembly.