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short-lived. Starting in 1818, pressured by land companies pushing New York to remove all Indians from its borders, many Oneida and Stockbridge left New York for good, heading first to Michigan and then Wisconsin. 59

In 1832 the final straw broke when Congress enacted President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act by which all Indians from the East would be moved to lands west of the Mississippi River. According to Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Band of Mohicans tribal history, "A group of Stockbridge Mohicans, fearing the inevitable, moved to Kansas and Oklahoma in 1839. Many died while making this journey. Some reached Kansas and Oklahoma and married into other tribes. Most simply gave up and returned to Wisconsin, which had gained statehood in 1848. During this period a group of Munsee joined the people at Stockbridge, Wisconsin, and were accepted into the community. Known at first as the Stockbridge and Munsee, eventually this community was simply called the 'Stockbridge-Munsee." 60