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The Mahican (/ məˈhikən /; also Mohican / moʊˈhikən /) are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe, originally settled in the Hudson River Valley ( around Albany, NY ) and western New England.
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Culturally they are closely related to the Lenape People ( Delaware Indians ) to the west and south of Wappinger lands ; also related to the Mahican People to their immediate north and to the Metoac Peoples of Long Island.
He also conducted smaller amounts of fieldwork on the Menominee and Mahican languages, of the Algonquian language family.
The Schaghticoke ( or ) are a Native American tribe of the Eastern Woodlands consisting of descendants of Mahican ( also called " Mohican ", but not to be confused with the Mohegans ), Potatuck ( or Pootatuck ), Weantinock, Tunxis, Podunk, and other people indigenous to what is now Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts.
To the north were the Algonquian Mahican, and to the east were the Eastern Long Island Algonquian languages, such as Unquachog ( also spelled Unkechaug ) and southern New England languages, such as Quiripi.
Mahican and Mohican
The Mahican were a confederacy rather than a single tribe, and at the time of contact, had five main divisions: Mohican proper, Westenhuck, Wawayachtonoc, Mechkentowoon, and Wiekagjoc.
Similar differences in spelling have been seen in the following versions: Mahican / Mahikan / Maikens tribe or Mohecan / Morhican / Mohican tribe, all referring to the same Algonquian-speaking people.
* Mahican ( sometimes spelled " Mohican "), a Native American tribe who lived in and around the Hudson Valley
Mahican and are
Since the 1830s, most descendants of the Mahican are located in Shawano County, Wisconsin, where they formed the federally recognized Stockbridge-Munsee Community with Lenape people and have a reservation.
* Three Mohawk chiefs and one Mahican are received in Queen Anne's court in England as the Four Kings of the New World.
However, they are called the " twin lakes " not because of their size and shape, but because of their namesakes, two daughters of a Mahican chief.
Mahican and Eastern
The now extinct Mahican language belonged to the Eastern Algonquian branch of the Algonquian language family.
Taken together with Mahican, the Delaware languages constitute Delawaran, a subgroup within Eastern Algonquian.
Mahican and Algonquian
Throughout the region were spoken two related languages ( part of the Algonquian language family and related to Mahican ) collectively known as the Delaware languages: Unami and Munsee.
Some of the attested Loup vocabulary can be identified with different eastern Algonquian communities, including the Mahican, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and other groups.
His mother was Mahican, a related Algonquian tribe.
An intermediate group Delawarean that is a descendant of Proto-Eastern Algonquian consists of Mahican and Common Delaware, the latter being a further subgroup comprising Munsee Delaware and Unami Delaware.
Mahican and Native
Ghent was originally the site of a Mahican Native American village known as Squampamock, Scom-pa-muck, or Squampanoc.
At the time of the arrival of the first Europeans in the 17th century, the area of Hudson Valley was inhabited primarily by the Algonquian-speaking Mahican and Munsee Native American people, known collectively as River Indians.
Western Massachusetts was originally settled by Native American societies including the Pocomtuc, Nonotuck Mohawk, Nipmuck, and Mahican.
Mahican and American
Following the disruption of the American Revolutionary War, most of the Mahican descendants first migrated westward to join the Iroquois Oneida on their reservation in central New York.
* 1759-Native American Samson Occom, direct descendant of the great Mahican chief Uncas, is ordained by the Presbyterians.
Mahican and tribe
James Fenimore Cooper based his novel, The Last of the Mohicans, on the Mahican tribe.
Alford was first settled in 1756 as part of a purchase of land from the Shauanum Stockbridge Mahican tribe by a group led by Timothy Woodbridge.
Stockbridge was first settled by English missionaries in 1734, who established it as a mission for the Mahican Indian tribe known as the Stockbridge Indians.
Prior to the advent of the Dutch, the region was at the heart of the Mahican tribe.
In 1628, the Mohawk tribe defeated the Mahican, who retreated to Connecticut.
Mahican and originally
Lee, Massachusetts, occupies land which was originally territory of the Mahican Indians.
Mahican and settled
Roxbury, whose Indian name was " Shepaug ", a Mahican name signifiying " rocky water ", was settled about the year 1713.
During the Woodland period, the area was settled by the Mahican people, with others, such as the Mohawks, traveling across it.
The town was first settled around 1740 by Moravian missionaries to the native Mahican village of Shekomeko.
Mahican and Hudson
It was claimed by the English but largely occupied by the Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga and Mohawk, who had the territory in the central Mohawk Valley, as well as Mahican near the Hudson River.
The Mahican were living in and around the Hudson Valley at the time of their first contact with Europeans after 1609, during the settlement of New Netherland.
Over the next hundred years, tensions between the Mahican and the Iroquois Mohawk, as well as Dutch and English settlers, caused the Mahican to migrate eastward across the Hudson River into western Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Cooper set his novel in the Hudson Valley, Mahican land, but used some Mohegan names for his characters, such as Uncas.
The federally recognized Stockbridge-Munsee Community ( made up of Algonquian-speaking Mahican and Lenape ), whose ancestors traditionally lived in the East along the Hudson River Valley, is located in Shawano County.
Mahican and New
The central figures of Mahican society, including the chief sachem and his counselors and relatives, were part of the move to New Stockbridge.
In 1628 the Mohawk defeated the Mahican and established a monopoly of trade with the Dutch at Fort Orange, New Netherland.
* Mahican Confederacy, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont
** Mahican, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont
Mahican and .
It is closest to Mahican and Western Abenaki.
The Mahican chief Etow Oh Koam, referred to as one of the Four Mohawk Kings in a state visit to Queen Anne in 1710.
Settlers soon took over the Mahican land.
The Mahican, who as Algonquians were not part of the Iroquois Confederacy, sided with the Patriots, serving at the Siege of Boston, and the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth.
While continuing as Christians, they retained their language and Mahican cultural traditions.
In general, their evolving Mahican identity was still rooted in traditions of the past.
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