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Mahican

[ muh-hee-kuhn ]

noun

plural Mahicans, (especially collectively) Mahican
  1. a tribe or confederacy of North American Indians of the Algonquian family, centralized formerly in the upper Hudson valley.
  2. a member of this tribe or confederacy.
  3. the extinct Algonquian language of the Mahican Indians.


Mahican

/ əˈːə /

noun

  1. a variant of Mohican
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Mahican1

First recorded in 1605–15; self-designation of the Mahican people; literally, “person (people) of the tidal estuary (of the Hudson River)”; cognate with Munsee Delaware ·í·첹; compare -··첹 in 쾱ٲ·í·첹 “ocean,” with kiht- “great”); the spelling variant Mohican was popularized by James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
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A menacing dark gunmetal 80s overcoat with minimalist cinched waist, big black boots and a model with a punk Mahican began the show.

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The Bronx River was once a pristine waterway fished by the Mahicans, Native Americans who lived near its banks.

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Thrush details some remarkable scenes from 1800s London: A manager at a performance of Macbeth forcing four Mohawk and Mahican kings to sit on the stage so that curious Londoners could watch them watching Shakespeare.

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Two years later, a Mahican Indian chose another Empire State location for his own Fourth of July speech.

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Catskill was the southern boundary of the Mahicans on the west bank, and here they set up their emblem.

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