As told by the descendants themselves, they are not professional speakers, but have much knowledge of outdoor skills, wildlife and woodlore. Old ways of harvesting the rivers, bay and forest have been passed down by our ancestors. They are recounted in old family stories, told us by our grandmothers and grandfathers. The Accohannock is one of the oldest tribal groups in Maryland.
Artifacts suggest Maryland has been our homeland since the Eastern Woodlands beginning.
For thousands of years the Eastern Woodland covered the entire Eastern half of what is now the United States of America. The Accohannock was one of the many tribes that lived here. Our home is on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. And for the most part is still as it was in the beginning. It is one of only a few places that is still left on what once was the endless forest of the Eastern Woodlands.