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- ↑ "The backstory on the Nanticoke Indian Tribe". The News Journal. delawareonline.com. Retrieved August 11, 2008.
- ↑ "Chief Resigns", accessed 8 Oct 2009
- ↑ https://www.nanticokeindians.org/page/nanticoke-flag
- ↑ Weslager, Clinton (1983). The Nanticoke Indians Past and Present. Associated University Presses, Inc. pp. 216–218. ISBN 0874131790.