The Stockbridge Indians allowed Protestant Christian Missionaries to live among them and converted to Christianity in the 18th Century . Although they fought on the side of the American colonists in both the French And Indian War and the American Revolution , they were dispossessed of their land and forced to move westward, first to Stockbridge, New York in the 1780s and later to Shawano County, Wisconsin in the 1820s and 1830s . In Wisconsin, they settled on Reservation s with the Munsee ; the two were jointly known as .
Today the reservation is known as that of the .
The now extinct belonged to the Eastern Algonquian branch of the Algonquian Language family.
James Fenimore Cooper 's novel '' The Last Of The Mohicans '' is based on the Mahican tribe but includes some cultural aspects of the Mohegan s, a different Algonquian tribe living in eastern Connecticut . The novel takes place in the Hudson Valley, Mahican land, but some characters' names, such as Uncas , are Mohegan.
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