Mahican

Mahican, Native American group of tribes of the Eastern Woodlands. These Native Americans lived along the Hudson River in longhouses and spoke an Algonquian language. They were active in the 17th-century fur trade along with their rivals, the Mohawks. Today surviving Mahicans live on Stock-bridge Reservation in Wisconsin, named after the western Massachusetts town to which they were driven in the 17th century. Both Mahicans and Mohegans, a tribe of the Mahican group, are often referred to as Mohicans, after the fictional tribe in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.

See also: Mohegan.