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MOHICAN, MAHICAN AND MOHEGAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 648 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOHICAN, MAHICAN AND MOHEGAN , the first two the alternative names of an important tribe and confederacy of See also:North See also:American See also:Indians of Algonquian stock, and the last a See also:dialectic See also:form of the name applied to a See also:branch tribe. The Mohicans inhabited the See also:Hudson valley, and their domain extended into See also:Massachusetts. The Mohicans were called by the See also:French Loups (See also:wolf Indians), a See also:translation of Mohican." At first their See also:council-See also:fire was at Schodac, on an See also:island near See also:Albany, and they were grouped in See also:forty villages. In consequence of attacks by the Mohawks, they moved their council-fire to what is now See also:Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1664; in 1730 many migrated to the Susquehanna valley, See also:Pennsylvania, and became absorbed into the Delawares. In 1736 those See also:left in Massachusetts were placed on a See also:reservation at Stockbridge, and called by that name. A few of these Stockbridge Indians, who may be truly called " the last of the Mohicans," are now settled, with some of the Munsees, on a reservation at See also:Green See also:Bay, See also:Wisconsin. The Mohegans, originally an offshoot of the Mohican, lived on See also:Thames See also:river, See also:Connecticut, their See also:county extending into Massachusetts and including Rhode Island. In 1637, on the destruction of the Pequots, an offshoot of the Mohegans, the Mohegans claimed their See also:country too, and thus the territorial See also:power of the two tribes was consolidated under one Mohegan See also:chief. For some See also:time the Mohegans remained the supreme See also:Indian See also:people of See also:southern New See also:England. Eventually they sold most of their lands and centred in a small reservation on Thames river. They have now practically become See also:extinct.

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