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n. - The Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican; A member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic.

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  • Some estimates of the Mahican population in 1600 range as high as 35,000.
  • The locale was initial settled around 1740 by Moravian missionaries to a native Mahican village of Shekomeko.
  • The original Mahican homeland was the Hudson River Valley from the Catskill Mountains north to the southern end of Lake Champlain.
  • Since Cooper lived in New York and the location of his tale was the upper Hudson Valley, it can be presumed that he meant Mahican.
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