also transliterated to Sche-negh-ta-da, "through the pine woods", referring to the path they took there.

According to Hendrick Aupaumut, the Mohicans came to the area from the north and the west. They settled along the Mahicannituck River, which is now called the Hudson River, and called themselves the Muh-he-con-neok, the "People of the Waters That Are Never Still".

The Mohawks, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, were based

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