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The Nacotchtanks were an Algonquian speaking people whose palisaded village was on the far side of the Anacostia River. The ridge where Woodley would one day stand was part of the sustaining hinterland where men and boys would have hunted rabbits, squirrels, bears, and turkeys while women and children would have been out picking strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, huckleberries, chinquapins, and a wide assortment of herbs. One of the tragic consequences of European settlement was that, by the opening of the eighteenth century, the Nacotchtanks, like so many other coastal Indians, had been effectively eradicated.

	The Nacotchtanks were an Algonquian speaking people whose palisaded village was on the far side of the Anacostia River. The ridge where Woodley would one day stand was part of the sustaining hinterland where men and boys would have hunted rabbits, squirrels, bears, and turkeys while women and children would have been out picking strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, huckleberries, chinquapins, and a wide assortment of herbs. One of the tragic consequences of European settlement was that, by the opening of the eighteenth century, the Nacotchtanks, like so many other coastal Indians, had been effectively eradicated.
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