Editing Mohicans (section)

===Move to Oneida, New York===
After the Revolution the citizens of the new United States forced many Native Americans off their land and westward. In the 1780s, groups of Stockbridge Indians, today regarded as '''[[Stockbridge Munsee]]''', moved from Massachusetts to a new location among the [[Oneida people]] in central New York, who had been granted a {{convert|300000|acre|adj=on}} reservation for their service to the Patriots, out of their former territory of {{convert|6000000|acre}}. They called their settlement [[Stockbridge, New York|New Stockbridge]]. Some individuals and families, mostly people who were old or those with special ties to the area, remained behind at Stockbridge.

The central figures of Mohican society, including the chief sachem, Joseph Quanaukaunt, and his counselors and relatives, were part of the move to New Stockbridge. At the new town, the Stockbridge emigrants controlled their own affairs and combined traditional ways with the new as they chose. After learning from the Christian missionaries, the Stockbridge Indians were experienced in English ways. At New Stockbridge they replicated their former town. While continuing as Christians, they retained their language and Mohican cultural traditions. In general, their evolving Mohican identity was still rooted in traditions of the past.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dunn|first=Shirley|title=The Mohican World 1680–1750|year=2000|publisher=Purple Mountain Press, Ltd.|location=Fleischmanns, New York|pages=213}}</ref>