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The Mohegan Tribe (/ ˈ m oʊ h iː ɡ æ n /) is a federally recognized tribe and sovereign tribal nation of the Mohegan people. Their reservation is the Mohegan Indian Reservation , located on the Thames River in Uncasville, Connecticut .
The name Pequot was given to the Mohegan by other tribes throughout the northeast and was eventually adopted by themselves. In 1637, English Puritan colonists destroyed a principal fortified village at Mistick with the help of their sachem Uncas, the Christian convert and sagamore Wequash Cooke, and the Narragansetts during the Pequot War.
His description includes some cultural aspects of the Mohegan, a different Algonquian tribe that lived in eastern Connecticut. Cooper set his novel in the Hudson Valley, Mohican land, but used some Mohegan names for his characters, such as Uncas. The novel has been adapted for the cinema more than a dozen times, the first time in 1920.
Lynn Malerba, the first woman to be named ceremonial chief of the Mohegan Tribe, will have her name on currency and head up a new Treasury Department tribal affairs office.
Mohegan: named after the Mohegan people. Mianus River (and town): (Paugussett) a 17th-century chief's name – "Mianu/Mayanno's" Moodus): (Wangunk) from "mache moodus" or "bad noises" [4] Shared with the Moodus River and Moodus Reservoir. Moosup: (Narragansett) a chief named "Mausup" Mystic River (and town): (Pequot-Mohegan) "great tidal river"
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
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Then last week, the Mohegan Tribe announced that it no longer supports the use of Indian-related team names. The reversal has unsettled many in the southeastern Connecticut town, which has ...