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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 ...
The militia unit was composed mostly of Mohican, Wappinger, and Munsee from the Stockbridge area. While most northeastern tribes, such as Joseph Brant's Mohawks, aligned themselves with the British, the Stockbridge tribes allied with the American Patriots. Led by Jehoiaikim Mtohksin and Abraham Nimham, they were the first group of Native ...
Dorothy Davids (May 2, 1923 – October 4, 2014) was an American educator, educational services administrator, and a Native American and women's rights activist. She was an enrolled member of the Stockbridge–Munsee Community.
Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, and Ho-Chunk Nation President Jon Greendeer, also attended the news conference. Holsey called the aid program “cycle ...
In 2021, the Trustees renamed the summit and two trails after collaboration with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohicans. [3] [4] Indian Monument Trail was renamed the Mohican Monument Trail, Squaw Peak Trail was renamed the Peeskawso Peak Trail, and Squaw Peak, a summit of Monument Mountain, was renamed Peeskawso Peak.
Electa Quinney (Mahican name: Wuh-weh-wee-nee-meew Quan-au-kaunt) (c. 1798 – 1885) was a Mohican and member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.She founded one of the first schools in what would become Wisconsin and was the first woman to teach in a public school in the territory which would be Wisconsin.
Quinney Grave site near Stockbridge, Wisconsin. John Wannuaucon Quinney (c. 1797 – July 21, 1855) was a Mahican (also Stockbridge) diplomat, and was also referred to as "The Dish", [1] a translation of his middle name, this being "a symbolic term for the Mohican (sic) homelands along the Housatonic River".