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A Mahicans (besides Mohicans) come the Native American tribe who were dwelling inside & as much as a Hudson Valley at the period of their foremost call for sustaining Europeans in 1609. Across a next 100 years, tensions between a Mahicans & a Mohawks as well as a Europeans caused a Mahicans to migrate eastbound; several settled around what would finally be the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. For this understanding this class action of Mahicans has likewise ofttimes been referred to as a Stockbridge Indians.

A Stockbridge Indians allowed Protestant Christian missionaries to live among the children & converted to Christianity in the 18th Century. Although it fought unofficially of a U.s. settler around each the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, they were dispossessed of their l& and forced to move westwards, number 1 to Stockbridge, New York in the 1780s and later to Shawano County, Wisconsin in the 1820s and 1830s. Around Wisconsin, it fixate reservations with the Munsee; the two were jointly referred to as Stockbridge-Munsee.

In todays world a reservation is referred to as that of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians.

A at present out Mahican language belonged to the Eastern Algonquian branch of the Algic language family.

James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans confuses a Mahicans by owning the Mohegans, a different Algonquian tribe sleep in eastern Connecticut. A novel requires place in the Hudson Valley, Mahican land, however characters' list, like Uncas, are Mohegan.

Stockbridge-Munsee Community - Mohican Nation
Tribal council, news, legal information, and information about the casino and other tribal businesses. In Wisconsin.

Bravearrow's Mohican Page
Information about the Stockbridge Munsee Tribe of Mohican Indians, with information about the Stockbridge Mohicans, the Munsee, and the Mahican language.

Mahican History
Comprehensive overview of Mahican history.

The Mohicans of the Upper Hudson Valley
Overview of Mahican history and culture from a Mahican woman, with a compendium of links.

Mahican Language and the Mahican Indian People
Language, culture, history, and genealogy. With a special question-and-answer section for kids.

Stockbridge-Munsee Community
Official site for this band of the Mohican (Mahican) Nation, including tribal government, history, family services, education, and news and events. Reservation in Wisconsin.

Stockbridge-Munsee (Mohican)
Article on the tribe's history and culture from the Encyclopedia of North American Indians.






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