A Vocabulary of Stockbridge Mahican (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935228363)

The original Mahican tribe lived in the Hudson River valley of eastern New York state, from Lake Champlain south to the Catskills. In later times the tribe also assumed into its orbit several closely related groups such as the Housatonic, Wyachtonok and Wappinger, though it always remained a distinct cultural and political entity from the similarly named Mohegan of Connecticut. This volume contains early linguistic data from the Stockbridge Mahicans, including 84 words collected from multiple speakers by Benjamin Smith Barton, 80 words obtained in 1804 by William Jenks, and about 30 words collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft from Metoxon in about 1827.