Mohican are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe that historically spoke an Algonquian language.
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11 Facts About Mohican
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The Mohican lived in the upper tidal Hudson River Valley, including the confluence of the Mohawk River and into western New England centered on the upper Housatonic River watershed.
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Mohican territory reached along Hudson River watersheds northeastward to Wood Creek just south of Lake Champlain.
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Mohican villages were governed by hereditary sachems advised by a council of clan elders.
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Formally extinct Mohican language belonged to the Eastern Algonquian branch of the Algonquian language family.
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Mohican were a confederacy of five tribes and as many as forty villages.
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The conflict caused most of the Mohican to migrate eastward across the Hudson River into western Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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Central figures of Mohican society, including the chief sachem, Joseph Quanaukaunt, and his counselors and relatives, were part of the move to New Stockbridge.
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In general, their evolving Mohican identity was still rooted in traditions of the past.
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In 2011, the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of the Mohican Indians regained ownership 156 acres along the Hudson River, a tract known as Papscanee Island Nature Preserve near East Greenbush and Schodack.
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Mohican's description includes some cultural aspects of the Mohegan, a different Algonquian tribe that lived in eastern Connecticut.
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