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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by winglo[/i] [br]I'm reading a book called [u]The Shawnees and the War for America[/u]. The author, Colin G. Calloway, refers to a tribe of Indians called the Mahicans periodically. They were an Algonquin-speaking people who originally lived in the Hudson Valley and western MA. Does anyone know anything about this tribe? Do they still exist? I had heard that Cooper's Mohicans were fictional, but maybe he based his LOTM characters on this tribe? Is this just another spelling? Are they perhaps related to the current day Mohegans? I had just never heard of Mahicans before. And how sad it is to learn all the happened to the Shawnees. What a tribe! So organized initially when encountered by the Europeans! Incidentally, this is a great book, and apparently the first in a series of upcoming books in the "Penguin Library of American Indian History." [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.