Some estimates of the Mahican population in 1600 range as high as 35,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

The locale was initial settled around 1740 by Moravian missionaries to a native Mahican village of Shekomeko.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

The original Mahican homeland was the Hudson River Valley from the Catskill Mountains north to the southern end of Lake Champlain.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

It is common for the Mohegan of the Thames River in eastern Connecticut to be confused with the Mahican from the middle Hudson Valley in New York a distance of about a hundred miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

The Sokoki and Pocumtuc (Connecticut River in western Massachusetts) had a long history of hostility with the Iroquois, and helped the Mahican in their war against the Mohawk (1624-28), with the Pennacook being drawn in as allies of the Sokoki.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

Other chiefs succeed, after whom "the Easterners and the Wolves" -- probably the Mahican or Wappinger and the Munsee -- move off to the northeast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina] Reference

French called them Loups (wolves); under which term they included also the cognate Mahican; while to most of their Algonquian neighbours they were known as Wapanaki (Easterners).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

(Cooper may have been thinking of the Wappingers, who really had been destroyed as a distinct people by the time he wrote his book -- the survivors were mostly absorbed into the Mahican tribe, where their descendents remain today.).    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Ten tips for expectant mothers] Reference

Native Languages of the Americas: Mohican (Mahican, Stockbridge, Wappinger) Language: The two Algonkian languages Mahican and Mohegan are related and have similar-sounding names, but they are linguistically distinct from each other, like Spanish and Italian.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Ten tips for expectant mothers] Reference

His book made the Mahican famous.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

Stockbridge, Wappinger) Language: The two Algonkian languages Mahican and Mohegan are related and have similar-sounding names, but they are linguistically distinct from each other, like Spanish and Italian.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Ten tips for expectant mothers] Reference

Stockbridge (Mahican).    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Mahican.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Mahican, population 51.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

The Mahican.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference