Mohican
The name Mohican (also known as Mahican) comes from the word “Muhheakunneuw” and plural “Muhhekunneyuk.” The Native people known as the Mohican originally inhabited the Hudson River valley in New York and the region west of the Berkshire Mountains. They later became known as Stockbridge Mohican, an English place name for the Indian mission village established in 1734 at a place the Mohican people called Wnahktukuk, in present-day Stockbridge in western Massachusetts. In the 19th century many of the Stockbridge Mohican tribe moved west to Wisconsin and Oklahoma. Culturally and linguistically, they are eastern Algonkian Indians.