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Definition of Mahican
1. Noun. A member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic.
2. Noun. The Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mahican
Literary usage of Mahican
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Native Villages and Village Sites East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell (1919)
"Although the 'works just quoted do not mention the existence of palisades among
the mahican, it is evident their villages in earlier times were so protected ..."
2. History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River: Their Origin, Manners and by Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
"The mahican has been preserved, partially at least, as has also to some extent
the Long Island,— the latter extending along the east side of the river as ..."
3. The Memorial History of the City of New-York: From Its First Settlement to by James Grant Wilson (1892)
"... in mahican; lento, in Algonquin. Mother is cwca, in Long Island; ...
in mahican; (/altour*, in Algonquin. Stone is .S-MH, in Long Island; ..."
4. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 2/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"As early as 1721 a band of mahican found their way to Indiana, where they had a
village on ... These are the only mahican who have preserved their identity. ..."
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