Editing Mohicans (section)

====Revolutionary War====
[[File:Stockbridge 1778.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Von Ewald sketch of a [[Stockbridge Militia]] warrior who fought on the Patriot side in the [[Continental Army]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]]]]

In August 1775, the [[Iroquois Confederacy|Six Nations]] staged a council fire near Albany, after news of Bunker Hill had made war seem imminent. After much debate, they decided that such a war was a private affair between the British and the colonists (known as Rebels, Revolutionaries, Congress-Men, American Whigs, or [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriots]]), and that they should stay out of it. Mohawk Chief [[Joseph Brant]] feared that the Indians would lose their lands if the Colonists achieved independence. Sir [[Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet|William Johnson]], his son [[Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet|John Johnson]] and son-in-law [[Guy Johnson]] and Brant used all their influence to engage the Iroquois to fight for the British cause. The [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]], [[Onondaga people|Onondaga]], [[Cayuga people|Cayuga]], and [[Seneca people|Seneca]] ultimately became allies and provided warriors for the battles in the New York area. The [[Oneida people|Oneida]] and [[Tuscarora people|Tuscarora]] sided with the Colonists. The Mohicans, who as Algonquians were not part of the Iroquois Confederacy, sided with the Patriots, serving at the Siege of Boston, and the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth.

In 1778 they lost forty warriors of their [[Stockbridge Militia]], around half "Stockbridge Indians" who were remnants of both Mohican and [[Wappinger]] tribes, in a British attack on the land of the van Cortlandt family. (In 1888, the property became [[Van Cortlandt Park]] in the Bronx, New York.) The [[Stockbridge Militia#The Stockbridge Massacre|Battle of Kingsbridge]] decimated the troop's ranks.<ref name=walling>[https://www.americanrevolution.org/ind3.php "Death In the Bronx, The Stockbridge Indian Massacre August, 1778"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020094902/https://www.americanrevolution.org/ind3.php |date=20 October 2021 }}, Richard S. Walling,  americanrevolution.org</ref>  It received a commendation from George Washington,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Aupaumut|first1=Hendrick|title=From George Washington to Captain Hendrick Aupaumut, 4 July 1779|url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-21-02-0283|publisher=Archives.gov|access-date=21 April 2018|archive-date=21 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421233341/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-21-02-0283|url-status=live}}</ref> was paid $1,000 and dismissed.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Mohicans of Stockbridge|author=Frazier, Patrick|pages=225}}</ref>