were appa Pequots and Mohegans rently originally of the same race with the Mohicans, Mohegans, or Mohicanders,

who

Hudson."

lived

on the banks of the

De Forest's History of the In

dians of Connecticut.

" Some Mahicanders are

at Hertford

This fact

cannot be too

in alliance with the

government of that

province ; the Mahicans

of

territory their alliances ;

having in the latter re

spect a nominal representation with the authorities of New York and a positive

one with Massachusetts. The Mohegans of Connecticut were one of the very few tribes whose organization and subsequent history is a matter of record 5 the Mabicans of the Hudson ante-date all human

knowledge. 6 " The term Lenape" says Schoolcraft,

"

appears to carry the same meaning as inaba, a male, and the word was proba bly used nationally, and with emphasis " I have called in the sense of men."

they do them

them simply Lenapc,

Northern Indians."

selves in most instances."

Nichols,

June

25, 1666; Colonial History , in, 117.

New York

them in their dialect, in the which they occupied, and in

differed from

in consultation with others the rivers and Col.

distinctly

The

Mobegans were an exclusively Eastern Connecticut tribe and recognized.

as

Hcckeiuelder.

OF HUDSON'S RIPER. Men of the

or

East. 1

Their

from

extended

territory

the

KatskiK mountains south to the Potomac, occupying the region watered by the Hudson, the Delaware, 2 the Susquehanna and

The site of their ancient council-fire was at

the Potomac.