Housatonic
The Algonkian word Housatonic, also spelled Housatunnock or Aussatinnoag, meaning “ a place beyond the mountain” has been applied to a river running through western Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut and a band of Mohican Indians. The Housatonic Mohican people of Wnahktukuk or Wahnahticook formed the core population of the 1734 mission village that came to be called Stockbridge. Culturally and linguistically, they were eastern Algonkian. Politically, they shifted alliances between their Iroquois and Algonkian neighbors.