Most eastern Native American populations were forced to reservations in Indian Territory during the 1830s, and other reservations in the American West later. They settled in what became Shawano County, Wisconsin. They combined with Lenape Native Americans (a branch known as the Munsee) in Stockbridge, MA, and later the people moved west away from pressure of European invasion. After 1680, due to conflicts with the powerful Mohawk to the west during the Beaver Wars, many were driven southeastward across the present-day Massachusetts western border and the Taconic Mountains to Berkshire County around Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
The Mohican lived in the upper tidal Hudson River Valley, including the confluence of the Mohawk River (where present-day Albany, New York, developed) and into western New England centered on the upper Housatonic River watershed. As part of the Eastern Algonquian family of tribes, they are related to the neighboring Lenape, whose indigenous territory was to the south as far as the Atlantic coast. The Mohicans ( / m oʊ ˈ h iː k ən z/ or / m ə ˈ h iː k ən z/) are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe that historically spoke an Algonquian language.
United States ( Shawano County, Wisconsin)
