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Overview of tribal history
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- prior to 1609: Mohicans roam lands from Manhattan Island to Lake Champlain, from the coast to the Housatonic River valley
- 1609: Henry Hudson sails down the Hudson River, encountering the Mohicans
- 1628-1675: at war with the Mohawks, decline of Mohican influence in the area
- 1675-1710: growth of English and Dutch colonies, infringing on Mohican hunting grounds, introducing
tuberculosis and smallpox endemics....alcoholism appears amongst the indians... cultural losses begin...
- 1734: missionary work begins with the Mohicans settled in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
- 1776: Mohicans join the colonists in the revolutionary war
- 1785: resettlement to a 6 sq. mile piece of land offered by the Oneida Indians (Brothertown Indians) in NY state
- 1808: offer of land in Indiana Territory by the Miami Indians attested by President Jefferson
- 1818: Mohicans move to Indiana, but find that the land had been sold to settlers
- 1818-1821: settlement along the White River in Indiana; joined by Munsee Indians to form the Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohican Indians
- 1821: treaties for land east of the Fox River in Wisconsin negotiated with the Menominee and Winnebago tribes
- 1831: new treaty offered by the US gov't for a reservation east of Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin
- 1843: Congress offers US citizenship to the Mohicans in exchange for surrendering tribal ownership of land
- 1849: Mohicans surrender the title to Wisconsin lands for $25,000 and promise of land west of the Mississippi...that land never materialized...
- 1856: a new treaty allotted land individually to US citizen Mohicans, the non-US citizen Mohicans settle on a new 40,000 acre reservation offered by the Menominees
- 1887-1910: loss of communally held lands due to consequences of the General Allotment Act of Congress through tax delinquency or debts
- 1910-1931: poverty stricken Mohicans remain in area surrounding the former reservation in the township of Red Springs
- 1931: The Stockbridge-Munsee Business Comittee is formed in Red Springs, Wisconsin leading to political activity amongst the Mohicans
- 1934: Indian Reorganization Act passed by Congress allowing tribes to purchase lands for reservations
- 1935: some of the land lost from the former reservation is repurchased for the tribe by the gov't ( 2,250 of the original 40,000 acres )
- 1936: 11 Mohican families resettle on newly purchased gov't controlled lands
- 1938: Tribal Council formed, title to the 2,250 acres is given to the tribe
- 1972: Mohicans given title to an additional 13,000 acres of adjoining land that had been in control of the Interior Dept. since 1935
- Present day: the Mohican Nation, Stockbridge-Munsee Band with members on and off the reservation in east central Wisconsin is thriving.
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