Mahican

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The Mahican are an Eastern Algonquian-speaking Native American people historically centered in what is now eastern New York and western New England.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian-speaking people
Eastern Algonquian language
Native American people
federally recognized tribe
colonialContactWith Dutch colonists
English colonists
composedOf Mahican descendants
Munsee Lenape descendants
continent North America
culturalRegion Northeast Woodlands
surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
currentPrimaryLanguage English language
displacedBy European colonization
ethnicGroupOf United States of America
surface form: United States
ethnonymVariant Mahikan
Mahican self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mohican

Muh-he-con-neok
historicalRegion Housatonic River valley
surface form: Housatonic River Valley

Hudson Valley
surface form: Hudson River Valley

eastern New York
Hudson River
surface form: upper Hudson River

Western Massachusetts
surface form: western New England
involvedInConflict Beaver Wars
Seven Years' War
surface form: French and Indian War
language Mahican language
languageFamily Algonquian languages
Algonquian languages
surface form: Eastern Algonquian languages
migratedTo Oneida territory in New York
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Wisconsin
missionHistory Stockbridge Indian mission
modernDescendantCommunity Mahican self-linksurface differs
surface form: Stockbridge-Munsee Community
recognizedBy United States government
surface form: United States federal government
relatedEthnicGroup Abenaki
Lenape
Narragansett
Pequot people
surface form: Pequot

Wappinger
religion Christianity
traditional tribal religion
reservationLocation Shawano County, Wisconsin
selfDesignation Muh-he-con-neok
selfDesignationMeaning people of the waters that are never still
traditionalHousing longhouse
wigwam
traditionalLanguage Mahican language
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
maize agriculture
treatyInvolvement various colonial-era land cessions in New York and Massachusetts

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Wampanoag people partOf Mahican
this entity surface form: Algonquian peoples
Mahican ethnonymVariant Mahican self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mohican
Mahican modernDescendantCommunity Mahican self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Stockbridge-Munsee Community
Lenape federallyRecognizedTribeInUnitedStates Mahican
this entity surface form: Stockbridge-Munsee Community
Lenape relatedEthnicGroup Mahican
Pequot people relatedEthnicGroup Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Fort Orange associatedWithPeople Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Beverwijck tradedWith Mahican
Mahican language ethnicGroup Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Mahican language spokenBy Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican tribe
Mahican language migrationHistory Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people relocated from New York to Massachusetts and Wisconsin
Muh-he-con-neok ethnonymFor Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Muh-he-con-neok hasAlternativeName Mahican
this entity surface form: Mohican
Stockbridge Indian mission foundedFor Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Stockbridge Indian mission foundedFor Mahican
this entity surface form: Mohican people
Stockbridge Indian mission ethnicFocus Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Stockbridge Indian mission ethnicFocus Mahican
this entity surface form: Mohican people
Mahikan alternativeName Mahican
Mahikan alternativeName Mahican
this entity surface form: Mohican
Unami closelyRelatedTo Mahican
Natty Bumppo associatedWith Mahican
this entity surface form: Mohican people
Wappinger relatedEthnicGroup Mahican
Quiripi people culturallyRelatedTo Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Pocumtuck people neighboringGroup Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Pocumtuck people relatedEthnicity Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Alaqua Cox ethnicGroup Mahican
this entity surface form: Mohican
Schaghticoke, New York namedAfter Mahican
this entity surface form: Schaghticoke people
Stockbridge-Munsee Community hasPeople Mahican
this entity surface form: Mohican people
Stockbridge-Munsee Community ethnicGroup Mahican
this entity surface form: Mohican
Mahikan language spokenBy Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Mahikan language associatedEthnicity Mahican
this entity surface form: Mahican people
People of the waters that are never still hasAlternativeSpelling Mahican
subject surface form: Mahikan
People of the waters that are never still hasAlternativeSpelling Mahican
subject surface form: Mahikan
this entity surface form: Mohican
People of the waters that are never still refersTo Mahican
subject surface form: Mahikan
this entity surface form: Mahican people
People of the waters that are never still isEndonymFor Mahican
subject surface form: Mahikan
this entity surface form: Mahican people