Even with the legislation passed, the name of Indian Head Highway — also called Maryland Route 210 — won’t actually be changed.
Gabrielle Tayac, a historian who is an enrolled member of the Piscataway Indian Nation, in front of a ceremonial lodge outside her home in Nanjemoy, Md. Gabrielle Tayac, a Native American scholar and historian, still remembers as a girl hearing from her father the oral history passed down in his family for over 100 years: How the town of Indian Head and the highway through it got named.
But what seemed an easy win turned out to be riddled with troubles: The bill to rename Indian Head Highway Francis Gray, who identifies himself as the tribal chair of the Piscataway Conoy council, told The Washington Post the council did not support the way the bill was introduced and passed because he felt it was “fast tracked” and no one reached out to him or the tribal council leaders until the last minute.
To further complicate matters, historians and tribal members say there are different versions of how the area came to be named “Indian Head.”Some Piscataways and historians cite the bloody past, while others point to the region’s geography — a promontory jutting into the Potomac River. Owen Lourie, historian for the Maryland State Archives, said the earliest map he has seen with the word “head” is fromfor its large concentration of Native Americans and used the word “head” to describe the land where they lived because it “sticks out into the Potomac River.”mapIn the 1890s, people moved to the town during the post-Civil War depression to work at the newly established Naval Proving Ground.
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