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Mohicans
Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands
Mohicans
The Mohicans or Mahicans ( or ) are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands who spoke an Eastern Algonquian language. Historically, they were based in Upstate New York. Today, they are enrolled in the federally recognized Stockbridge Munsee Community in Wisconsin. The Mohicans 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. 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. They combined with Lenape Native Americans (a branch known as the Munsee) in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and later the people moved west away from pressure of European invasion. They settled in what became Shawano County, Wisconsin. Most Eastern...
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