Title: Facts for Kids: Nanticoke Indians (Nanticokes)
Headings: Nanticoke Indian Fact Sheet
Nanticoke Indian Fact Sheet
Content: Here are some photographs from the Nanticoke Pow-Wow, where modern Nanticoke Indians wear traditional clothes and celebrate their heritage with song and dance. Sponsored Links
How do Nanticoke Indian children live, and what did they do in the past? They do the same things any children do--play with each other, go to school and help around the house. In the pa st, Indian kids had more chores and less time to play, just like early colonial children. But they did have dolls, ball games, and toys like miniature bows and arrows. Nanticoke Indian mothers, like many Native Americans, traditionally carried their infants in cradleboards on their backs. Here is a website with pictures of Native American baby boards . What were men and women's roles in the Nanticoke tribe? Nanticoke Indian men were hunters and sometimes went to war to protect their families. Nanticoke women were farmers and also did most of the child care and cooking.