Muhhekunneuw

The Muhhekunneuw, or Mohicans, were a confederacy of communities in the upper Hudson valley and the Housatonic watershed, including villages near present-day Albany.

After 1680 conflict with the Mohawk in the Beaver Wars drove many east toward Stockbridge in Massachusetts. After the American Revolution, their descendants moved west to Oneida land in central New York, where the Oneida granted them 22,000 acres. Pressured to sell their land, Stockbridge people moved again to Wisconsin in the 1820s and 1830s.