The Tayac and members of the Piscataway tribe returned to Southern Maryland after the defeat by the United States at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, Ohio. Other groups of migrating Piscataway either become part of the Iroquois Cayuga Wolf Clan and settled at the Sic Nations Reserve, blended in with the Delaware, or filtered out into the broader society. The returning Piscataway blended into rural Maryland Society, in their old territory in Charles and Prince Georges Counties, but without land. They dispersed onto farms to find wage labor and incorporated into the Catholic Church. There was some blending with remnant Indian people, but repressive conditions of race casting and removal threats inhibited formal tribal reorganization. Culture was practiced in the home and most eventually lost their conscious tribal identities by the turn of the century. A few individual families did overtly acknowledge and practice their traditional culture as Piscataway Indians, despite the immense pressures to completely assimilate.
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