>Both Mahican and Mohican (often Mohegan) were from the New England area. There
>is still a Mohican tribe in Conn. Stockbridge-Munsee is the name of the Mohican
>community that is in Wisconsin just south of the Menominee reservation.
According to a friend of mine who is an enrolled Stockbridge-Munsee (Mohican)
tribal member and a cultural activist in this area, Mohican and Mahican
refer to the same tribe from upper New York State. They are a distintly
different tribe from the Mohegans in the Connecticut area. Stockbridge-Munsee
is the name the tribe took after leaving their homeland and joining the mission
in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. There is no Mohican tribe in Connecticut. The
Stockbridge-Munsees do have a reservation in Shawano County, Wisconsin. They
have recently decided to change the name of the tribe back to Mohican.
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