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Title: A Nation of Statesmen: The Political Culture of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, 1815-1972

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: In James Fenimore Coopers famous novel *Last of the Mohicans*, the heroes are members of a vanishing race. Coopers portrayal, while inspiring more than one popular film, is far from the truth. The Mohican people, also known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Indians, did not disappear from history but instead, despite obstacles, have retained their tribal identity to this day. In this first history of the modern-day Mohicans, James W. Oberly narrates their story from the time of their relocation to Wisconsin through the post-World War II era.An Algonquian-speaking tribe, the Mohicans lived in the Hudson River Valley during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the 1730s they moved eastward to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, taking up a host of English values and ways, including literacy and Christianity. In the 1820s, a confederacy of Stockbridge Indians and Munsees moved again to Wisconsin, where they reside today on a 46,000-acre reservation. Because Mohican leaders have long been fluent in English, an unusual wealth of documentary evidence, including personal memoirs, has survived. Oberly draws on these sources and on a range of government and legal documents to provide an in-depth political and cultural portrait of the tribe. The volume also includes three appendices containing key legal documents in the Mohicans political history.

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Authors: Oberly, James Warren

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Publisher Location: Norman, OK

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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