An interactive atlas of Muh-he-con-ne-ok homeland, removal, and return
The People of the Watersthat are never still
The Mohican Nation took its name from Muhheakantuck, the tidal river the Dutch renamed the Hudson. Between 1609 and 1856 the nation was moved, by treaty, debt, war, and statute, along a route of more than 1,100 miles from its council fire at Schodack to a reservation in Shawano County, Wisconsin. This atlas maps that route and the homelands it left behind.
The Atlas
Every marker is a documented place or event, with its Mohican name where recorded, its dates, and the sources it rests on. Filter by era, drag the timeline, or search.
The Removal Route
The "Many Trails" emblem created in 1965 by tribal member Edwin Martin records a history of eight forced relocations across more than 1,100 miles. The principal stages are below, along with the 1839 divergence that carried one faction toward Kansas and Indian Territory. Select any stage to fly the map to it.
Notes on Evidence
Oklahoma, carefully
A Stockbridge faction moved west with Delaware relatives to Kansas in 1839 and, under an 1867 agreement, into Indian Territory with the Cherokee Nation. Those descendants are enrolled today in Delaware-affiliated nations, not in a separate Mohican tribe. The Stockbridge-Munsee Community states plainly on its own site that it is the only Mohican tribe. The Delaware Nation at Anadarko and the Munsee-Delaware of Ontario are distinct peoples with separate histories, and this map treats them as such.
Cohoes Falls
Cohoes Falls is included as a Hudson-basin landmark within Mohican territory, but its best-documented creation-story associations are Mohawk (Haudenosaunee), not Mohican. It is flagged on the map rather than claimed.
Coordinates
Village sites such as Wnahktukook, Skatekook, and Westenhuck are given approximate centroids based on the modern towns that absorbed them. They orient a reader; they do not locate a site. Nothing here should be used for site identification, and no sensitive burial locations are plotted.
Compiled from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community (mohican.com), the New York State Museum, the Milwaukee Public Museum's Indian Country Wisconsin project, Oklahoma State University's treaty archive, the Open Space Institute, and county and municipal historical records. Every marker carries its own source links. Errors are the compiler's, not the nation's.