Editing Mohicans (section)

==Territory==
In [[Mohican language|their own language]], the Mohican identified collectively as the {{lang|mjy|Muhhekunneuw}}, "people of the waters that are never still".<ref name="sultzman">{{Cite web|title=Mahican|url=http://www.dickshovel.com/Mahican.html|access-date=2021-06-26|website=www.dickshovel.com|archive-date=30 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630000855/http://www.dickshovel.com/Mahican.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

At the time of their [[first contact (anthropology)|first contact]] with [[Europe]]ans traders along the river in the 1590s, the Mohican were living in and around the [[Hudson River]] (or {{lang|mjy|Mahicannituck}}). 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]],<ref name=proceedings>
{{cite journal |last=Ruttenber |first=E.M.  |year=1906 |title=Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names in the Valley of Hudson's River, the Valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: Their location and the probable meaning of some of them |journal=Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association - the Annual Meeting, with Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members |volume=7th Annual |page=40 (RA1–PA38) |publisher=New York State Historical Association |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i3kSAAAAYAAJ&q=wapani&pg=RA1-PA38 |access-date=October 31, 2010 }}
</ref> where they bordered on the [[Wappinger]] people. This nation inhabited the river area and its interior southward to today's New York City.<ref name="Sultzman, Lee 1997">{{cite web|author= Sultzman, Lee|year= 1997|title= Wappinger History|access-date= 14 January 2012|url= http://www.dickshovel.com/wap.html|archive-date= 18 August 2009|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090818110640/http://www.dickshovel.com/wap.html|url-status= live}}</ref>

Most of the Mohican communities lay along the upper tidal reaches of the Hudson River and along the watersheds of Kinderhook-Claverack-Taghkanic Creek, the Roeliff Jansen Kill, Catskil Creek, and adjacent areas of the [[Housatonic River|Housatonic watershed]]. Mohican territory reached along Hudson River watersheds northeastward to Wood Creek just south of [[Lake Champlain]].