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Mohican - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 13th May, 2006 - 1:31am
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Post Date: 13th May, 2006 - 1:31am / Post ID: #
Mohican
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| The general term "Mohican" has been used to refer not only to the Mahicans and their kin the Wappingers, but also to six or seven other Indian tribes lumped together as Mohegans by early colonists. The confusion between these eastern tribes was worsened by James Fenimore Cooper's book "Last of the Mohicans," which incorrectly merged the Mahicans and Mohegans into a single, extinct Mohican tribe. In reality the Mahicans and Mohegans have never been the same tribe, and neither group is extinct. (Cooper may have been thinking of the Wappingers, who really had been destroyed as a distinct people by the time he wrote his book--the survivors were mostly absorbed into the Mahican tribe, where their descendents remain today.) The similarity between their names is due to coincidence and European mispronunciation--"Mahican" comes from the word Muheconneok, "from the waters that are never still" (the Hudson River), and "Mohegan" comes from the word Mahiingan, "wolf." Today there are about 3000 Mahican Indians in Wisconsin, where they were forced to emigrate, and many Mahican descendents scattered throughout New England. |
There are actually a couple different tribes that people commonly link to the Mohicans. But the truth is that Mohican is simply an alternate spelling for Mahican, and not Mohegan which many often attribute to the Mohicans.
https://www.native-languages.org/mohican.htm
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