| Lcnaf uri | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85128211 |
| Organization name | Stockbridge indians |
| Other names | Maheconneck;Housatonic;Housatunnuk;Mohican;Mahican;Muhhuonnuk Nation |
| Org type | Indian group |
| Bio notes | Descendants of the Mahican (or Mohican) tribe. Moved to New England to escape Mohawk as well as colonist pressure, the Stockbridge band took its name from the Massachusetts town it settled at in the early 18th century. As they allowed Protestant missionaries to live with them, many converted to Christianity within the century. Due to pressure from the new United States government in the 1780s, the Stockbridge began migrating to Oneida territory in western New York, where they established the town of New Stockbridge. Here they formed a syncretic culture comprised of traditional and European practices. After the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Stockbridge moved to Fox River, Wisconsin, where they shared land (and eventualy merged) with displaced Lenape people. After legal debate with the indigenous peoples there, the Stockbridge moved to the east shores of Lake Winnebago by 1834. In 1843, Congress passed an act making all Stockbridge Indians citizens of the United States. |
| See also | Brothertown indians |
| Citations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahican ; https://www.mpm.edu/wirp/ICW-158.html |
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815
Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796, by James Cooper of Woodbury, N.J.
Joseph Clark's Account of a Journey to the Indian Country, 1797
Joseph Clark's Of a second Visit to the Indian Country, 1801
Journal of Joshua Evans 1795-1796 (E)
John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796
Joshua Sharpless's Journal Into Indian Country, 1798
Jonathan Thomas His Book 1798
Copy of a manuscript respecting the American Indians (A)
Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1
Reports of the Indian Committee to New York Yearly Meeting, 1795-1806
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook
The Bank of Faith and Works United
Life of Thomas Eddy
Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793
Some Account of our Journey to Cannandaigue
Account of I. Coates, J. Sharpless, & J. Pierce, visits to Indian Reservation, NY
A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom
