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Mahican The confederacy of Native North Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock. The Mahican were of the Eastern Woodlands culture area. In the early 17th cent. they occupied both banks of the upper Hudson River extending north almost to Lake Champlain. Living to the northeast were the Pennacook, and to the southwest the Wappinger; both were closely related to the Mahican. The Mohegan were a tribe of the Mahican Confederacy and are to be distinguished from the larger group. However, both groups have on occasion been referred to as Mohicans. When the Dutch arrived in what is now New York the Mohawk had been at war with the Mahican for some time and had steadily driven the Mahican east of the Hudson River. The Mahican council fire, or capital, had been moved (1664) from Schodac, near Albany, eastward to what is now Stockbridge, Mass. The complete subjection and dispersal of the Mahican were hastened by the firearms provided to their enemies by the Dutch. Some of the Mahican moved west to join the Delaware, with whom they afterwards moved to the Ohio region (where the Mahican refugees lost their identity). Others placed themselves under the protection of the Iroquois Confederacy in S central New York. Those remaining in Massachusetts joined the Massachusetts Stockbridge; other Mahican descendants live in Connecticut and Wisconsin. See Alanson Skinner, Notes on Mahikan Ethnology (1925).
Mahican, Mohican, Mohegan - http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/007.html
Explanation of the relationships between the Mohegan and the Mahican, and the confusing term Mohican.
Bravearrow's Mohican Page - http://unr.edu/homepage/shubinsk/mohican.html
Information about the Stockbridge Munsee Tribe of Mohican Indians, with information about the Stockbridge Mohicans, the Munsee, and the Mahican language.
Mahican History - http://www.dickshovel.com/Mahican.html
Comprehensive overview of Mahican history.
Mahican, Mohican, Mohegan - http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/007.html
Explanation of the relationships between the Mohegan and the Mahican, and the confusing term Mohican.
Mohican Nation - http://www.mohican.com/
Tribal council, news, legal information, and information about the casino.
The Mohicans of the Upper Hudson Valley - http://members.tripod.com/~Debbie_Winchell/mohicans.html
Overview of Mahican history and culture from a Mahican woman, with a compendium of links.
Introduction to the Narragansett Language - http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/kislak/print/will1.html
1643 text written by Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island. |
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