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Did the Mohicans have horses?
Over land, the Mohicans used dogs as pack animals. (There were no horses in North America until colonists brought them over from Europe.) Mohican Indians used sleds and snowshoes to help them travel in the winter. (They learned to make those tools from northern neighbors like the Crees.)
What did Mohicans live in?
Because the Mohican people chose to build their homes near the rivers where they would be close to food, water and transportation, they were sometimes called River Indians. Their homes, called wik-wams (wigwams), were circular and made of bent saplings covered with hides or bark.
What does the word Mohicans mean?
1 : a member of an American Indian people of the upper Hudson River valley. 2 : the extinct Algonquian language of the Mahican people.
What kind of clothing did the Mohican Indians wear?
Shirts were not necessary in the Mohican culture, but the Mohicans did wear sleeved shirts in cool weather. Mohican people also wore moccasins on their feet. Here are some photographs and links about Native American Indian clothing in general. The Mohicans didn’t wear long headdresses like the Sioux.
What kind of weapons did the Mohawk Indians use?
The weapons used by the Mohawk warriors included bows and arrows, war clubs, tomahawks, spears and knives. Enemies of the Mohawk tribe included the Algonquin, Huron, Pennacook, Lenape, Ojibway (aka Chippewa) and the Mohican tribes together with all the other people they conquered.
What was the role of the Mohican tribe?
In his history of the Indians of the Hudson River, Edward Manning Ruttenber described the clans of the Mohican as the Bear, the Turkey, the Turtle, and the Wolf. Each had a role in the lives of the people, and the Wolf served as warriors in the north to defend against the Mohawk, the easternmost of the Five Nations of the Iroquois.
Where did the Mohicans live in New York?
After 1609, at the time of the Dutch settlement of New Netherland, they also ranged along the eastern Mohawk River and the Hoosic River, and south along the Hudson to the Roeliff Jansen Kill, where they bordered on the Wappinger people. This nation inhabited the river area and its interior southward to today’s New York City.