Brinton and James Hammond Trumbull 'two well-known authorities on Mohican history', the word Muh-he-kan refers to a body of water that flows in both directions, being tidal to most of its Mohican range, so they named the Hudson River Mahicanuck, or the river with waters that are never still. The tribe identified by the place where they lived: Muh-he-ka-neew (or 'people of the continually flowing waters'). A group of Mohican also migrated to Ontario, Canada to live with the predominately Iroquois Six Nations of the Grand River reserve. After more than two decades, in the 1820s and 1830s, the Oneida and the Stockbridge moved again, pressured to sell their lands and relocate to northeastern Wisconsin under the federal Indian Removal Act. The Oneida gave them about 22,000 acres for their use.

Decades later the United States government organized the Stockbridge-Munsee Community with registered members of the Munsee people and a 22,000-acre (89 km 2) reservation, which was originally the land of the Menominee Nation.įollowing the disruption of the American Revolutionary War, most of the Mohican descendants first migrated westward to join the Iroquois Oneida on their reservation in central New York. Most eastern Native American populations were forced to reservations in Indian Territory during the 1830s, and other reservations in the American West later. They settled in what became Shawano County, Wisconsin. They combined with Lenape Native Americans (a branch known as the Munsee) in Stockbridge, MA, and later the people moved west away from pressure of European invasion. After 1680, due to conflicts with the powerful Mohawk to the west during the Beaver Wars, many were driven southeastward across the present-day Massachusetts western border and the Taconic Mountains to Berkshire County around Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The Mohican lived in the upper tidal Hudson River Valley, including the confluence of the Mohawk River (where present-day Albany, New York, developed) and into western New England centered on the upper Housatonic River watershed. As part of the Eastern Algonquian family of tribes, they are related to the neighboring Lenape, whose indigenous territory was to the south as far as the Atlantic coast. The Mohicans ( / m oʊ ˈ h iː k ən z/ or / m ə ˈ h iː k ən z/) are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe that historically spoke an Algonquian language. United States ( Shawano County, Wisconsin)

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