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Daniel in full dress at Handsell

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Daniel Abbot

Nanticoke living history interpreter

Daniel Firehawk Abbott is a Nanticoke tribal member and living history interpreter from Dorchester County who specializes in pre-contact Native American skills and culture. He designed and guided the construction of the Chicone Village replica at Handsell and later served as Coordinator of Native American Interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg.

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A Man of the Shore

For more than half a century, Terry Crannell has helped people on Maryland’s Eastern Shore see Native history not as something distant, but as something still present in the land beneath their feet.

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