In 1734 they established the Town of Stockbridge, in Western Massachusetts. In 1792 a Mohican historian, Hendrick Aupaumut, recorded his Nation’s history., Many Trails The Mohican people were not allowed to live in peace in the lands of their ancestors, Some, converted by missionaries of the Moravian church, joined other Christian Indians in Pennsylvania – and years later shared their fate in the massacre at Gnadenhutten in 1782., Stockbridge Other Mohicans decided to adopt Western ways of living. A war with the Mohawk Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy in 1625 deprived the Mohicans of much of their lands west of the Hudson. , They taught their children the history, customs, and beliefs of their nation – as they continue to do today., Coming of the Dutch Hendrick Hudson sailed up the river in 1609, and soon Beverwijck (Albany) became a major trading post where Mohicans exchanged furs for the clothing, utensils and firearms they did not produce themselves. They hunted and fished, grew crops, and celebrated traditional festivals from Lake Champlain to the southern reaches of the Hudson valley. Happily, Cooper’s prediction was wrong, and as we restore access to a famous scene from The Last of the Mohicans, we also bear witness that the Mohican Nation is alive and well., Origins The Muh-he-ka-ne-ok or Mohican (sometimes spelled Manican) people came in ancient times to the shores of the Hudson River which they called the Majicannituck or “River whose Waters are Never Still.”, Related to the Lenne Lenapi (Delaware) and other Algonquian-speaking peoples to their south, the Mohicans built villages of longhouses near the rivers of longhouses near the rivers that were central to their way of life. Because of the title of Cooper’s famous novel, the world has often thought them to be extinct.

They were, consequently, the first dispossessed and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people…is represented as having already befallen them.”, James Fenimore Cooper, 1831 Introduction to The Last of the Mohicans, In addition to the trials and injustices they shared with other Native Americans, the Mohican Nation has borne as additional burden. , ”The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first occupied by the Europeans in this portion of the continent.

The Mohican Nation – Yesterday and Today.

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