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We-Sorts (also Wesorts) is a name for a group of Native Americans in Maryland who are from the Piscataway tribe. It is regarded as derogatory and a pejorative by some, and rarely used by the current younger generation. The Piscataway were powerful at the time of European encounter. Many individuals with the surnames Proctor, Newman, Wright, Savoy, Queen, Butler, Thompson, Swann, Gray, and Harley claim that Native heritage. Many are notably of a mixed race between black, white and Native American. "Some members of the Piscataway Indian groups now consider the name Wesort derogatory." Historian Frank Sweet lists "Wesorts" as among a group of "derogatory epithets given by mainstream society, not self-labels". However, "Wesort" is listed as a self-identified "Other race" on the 2000 United Sta

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rdfs:comment	We-Sorts (also Wesorts) is a name for a group of Native Americans in Maryland who are from the Piscataway tribe. It is regarded as derogatory and a pejorative by some, and rarely used by the current younger generation. The Piscataway were powerful at the time of European encounter. Many individuals with the surnames Proctor, Newman, Wright, Savoy, Queen, Butler, Thompson, Swann, Gray, and Harley claim that Native heritage. Many are notably of a mixed race between black, white and Native American. "Some members of the Piscataway Indian groups now consider the name Wesort derogatory." Historian Frank Sweet lists "Wesorts" as among a group of "derogatory epithets given by mainstream society, not self-labels". However, "Wesort" is listed as a self-identified "Other race" on the 2000 United Sta (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Melungeon Piscataway tribe List of place names in Maryland of Native American origin Patuxent people Charles County, Maryland Pejorative Yaocomico Piscataway tribe American genealogy 7th State Nanticoke people Newman Thompson (surname) African–Native American relations Smithsonian Institution Harley (surname) Mattawoman 2000 United States Census Wayne Karlin Doeg people African Americans Brass Ankles Pamunkey Gray (surname) Proctor (surname) Native American tribes in Maryland African-American history of Maryland Black Indians in the United States Turkey Tayac European Americans Ethnic and religious slurs Butler (surname) Piscataway people St. Mary's City, Maryland Nanjemoy, Maryland Indigenous peoples of the Americas Redbone (ethnicity) Maroon (people) Wright (surname)
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12114a.htm http://hal.lamar.edu/~BROWNTF/PISCATAWAY.HTML http://www.piscatawayindians.com/ http://www.melungeon.org/node/92 http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2007/05/01/16205/the-story-of-jamestown-through.html http://www.piscatawaynation.org/
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date	March 2022 (en)
reason	Why is it regarded as derogatory term? What's the historical or etymological reason? (en)
has abstract	We-Sorts (also Wesorts) is a name for a group of Native Americans in Maryland who are from the Piscataway tribe. It is regarded as derogatory and a pejorative by some, and rarely used by the current younger generation. The Piscataway were powerful at the time of European encounter. Many individuals with the surnames Proctor, Newman, Wright, Savoy, Queen, Butler, Thompson, Swann, Gray, and Harley claim that Native heritage. Many are notably of a mixed race between black, white and Native American. "Some members of the Piscataway Indian groups now consider the name Wesort derogatory." Historian Frank Sweet lists "Wesorts" as among a group of "derogatory epithets given by mainstream society, not self-labels". However, "Wesort" is listed as a self-identified "Other race" on the 2000 United States Census. In the early 1930s, weekend-farmer Alice Ferguson noticed that people were finding small artifacts in her fields and decided to do some digging around, according to newspaper reports. Between 1935 and 1939, she uncovered at least five mass-burial pits containing the 300-year-old remains of about 500 Piscataway people. Over the years, she gave most of the remains, the bones from about 467 individuals, to the Smithsonian Institution. She called the trust to come pick up what was left—the very partial remains of 36 individuals—said Hughes. The trust has determined that the remains are of Piscataway people. Alice and Henry Ferguson wrote and the Alice Ferguson Foundation published The Piscataway Indians of Southern Maryland in 1960. State officials say that most of the about 25,000 Native Americans who live in Maryland are Piscataway. (en)
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