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The Stockbridge–Munsee Community, also known as the Mohican Nation Stockbridge–Munsee Band, is a federally recognized Native American tribe formed in the late eighteenth century from communities of so-called "praying Indians" (or Moravian Indians), descended from Christianized members of two distinct groups: Mohican and Wappinger from the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and ...
Together, the two formed a band and are federally recognized as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. Their 22,000-acre reservation is known as that of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians and is located near the town of Bowler. Since the late twentieth century, they have developed the North Star Mohican Resort and Casino on their ...
Map of Lenapehoking and approximate boundaries of languages spoken, ... (Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians), Wisconsin (Stockbridge-Munsee Community), ...
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A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in ... Stockbridge Munsee Community: Wisconsin: ... Tribe(s) State(s) ...
Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiit, formerly the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown and Munsee of the Thames, a First Nation headquartered near Thamesville, Ontario; Chippewa and Munsee, Franklin County, Kansas; Stockbridge-Munsee Community at Green Bay Agency, Wisconsin, [4] now a federally recognized tribe
After the Esopus wars, many Stockbridge-Munsee moved to Western New York near Oneida Lake.They were eventually pushed off these lands by the Indian Removal Treaties in the 19th century, and eventually forced to settle on “inhospitable land” in Wisconsin by the 1830s.
Later in the early 19th century, the Stockbridge-Munsee in New York were forced to remove to Wisconsin. Today, members of the federally recognized Stockbridge-Munsee Nation reside mostly there on a reservation, where they operate a casino. In 2010 the tribe was awarded two tiny parcels suitable for casinos in New York State in return for ...