Mahican

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Algonquian-speaking people Eastern Algonquian language Native American people federally recognized tribe

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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Observed surface forms (8)

Surface form Occurrences
Stockbridge-Munsee Community 2
Mahican people 6
Mohican 3

Statements (50)

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 ⓘ

Referenced by (26)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mahikan → alternativeName → Mahican ⓘ
Mahikan → alternativeName → Mahican ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mohican
Natty Bumppo → associatedWith → Mahican ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mohican people
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Unami → closelyRelatedTo → Mahican ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mahican people
this entity surface form: Mohican people
Mahican language → ethnicGroup → Mahican ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Muh-he-con-neok → ethnonymFor → Mahican ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Mahican → ethnonymVariant → Mahican self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mohican
this entity surface form: Stockbridge-Munsee Community
this entity surface form: Mahican people
this entity surface form: Mohican people
this entity surface form: Mohican
this entity surface form: Mahican people relocated from New York to Massachusetts and Wisconsin
Mahican → modernDescendantCommunity → Mahican self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Stockbridge-Munsee Community
Wampanoag people → partOf → Mahican ⓘ
this entity surface form: Algonquian peoples
Lenape → relatedEthnicGroup → Mahican ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mahican people
Mahican language → spokenBy → Mahican ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mahican tribe
Beverwijck → tradedWith → Mahican ⓘ