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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 ...
Munnsville is located in eastern Madison County at (42.976597, -75.588236), [5] in the center of the town of Stockbridge New York State Route 46 passes through the village as Main Street, leading north 8 miles (13 km) to Oneida.
Stockbridge sits along the eastern border of Madison County, with Oneida County to the east and north. The village of Munnsville is in the center of the town. New York State Route 46 crosses the town, passing through Munnsville and leading north 9 miles (14 km) to Oneida and south 11 miles (18 km) to Hamilton.
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.
The town of Stockbridge was established in the late 1730s as a mission community to the Mahicans. John Sergeant was the first missionary, formally beginning his service in 1735. His first house, built in the valley where the Indians lived, has not survived; this house was built in the white community on the hill above the town following his ...
Stockbridge–Munsee Community This page was last edited on 14 January 2024, at 13:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The 2024 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has sentimental roots.. The tree was planted by the Albert family back in 1967 in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, when Earl Albert and his late wife ...
In 1837, some of the Munsee from Fairfield journeyed to Wisconsin to join another Christian band of Indians, the Stockbridge Indians, a combination of the last remnants of the Mohican and Wappinger peoples of the east bank of the Hudson River in New York, whence the two tribes became known collectively as the Stockbridge-Munsee. They are now ...