Mohicans

Mohican is a term that can be used to refer to either the Mohegan tribe or the Mahican tribe (also Mohican in English ). Both tribes belong to the Algonquin language group .

Use of terms

Theodor Waitz used the term Mohicans in his work The Indians of North America , published in 1865, to denote the Mohegan tribe . The term is, however, primarily through the use of the author James Fenimore Cooper 's novel The Last of the Mohicans known (in the English original is the title The Last of the Mohicans ), where Cooper real events of the two strains Mohegan and Mahican mixed. For example, the hero Uncas was a chief of the Mohegan who freed his tribe from the rule of the Pequot , while other stories in the novel are more reminiscent of the Mahican . In English, the name Mohican is mainly equated with the tribe of the Mahican .

According to a study by Wolfgang Hochbruck, the term Mohican could have originated as a word creation Cooper by the contraction of the names of the two New England tribes Mohegan and Mahican.

Descendants of the Stockbridge Indians still living in Wisconsin call themselves the Stockbridge- Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians .

The English term Mohican was also the inspiration for the Mohican River and a number of ships of the American Navy called the USS Mohican .

See also

• List of North American Indian tribes

literature

• Wolfgang Hochbruck: "I have spoken". The representation and ideological function of Native American orality in North American literature . Series: Script Oralia, 32. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1991 ISBN 9783823344803

Web links

• Report in Der Spiegel
• Classics of world literature
• FAZ , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Wolfgang Hochbruck: The literature of the North American Indians. in Walter Jens (Hrsg.): Kindlers new literature lexicon . Vol. 20: Essays, complete register. Kindler, Munich 1992, pp. 338-342

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brockhaus Enzyklopädie , FA Brockhaus GmbH, Leipzig 2001, 20th edition, Volume 15, ISBN 3-7653-3675-0 , p. 31
2. ↑ ^{a b} Encyclopaedia Britannica , 15th edition, 1998, Micropaedia Volume 7, p. 699
3. ↑ Theodor Waitz: The Indians of North America: A study. Fleischer, Leipzig 1865. On page 19, Waitz mentions in a sentence "also the Pequots and Mohicans in Connecticut, which have now disappeared" . Obviously Waitz meant the Mohegan by Mohicans , because the Pequot and Mohegan were native to Connecticut. See also this web link .
4. ↑ Wolfgang Seidel : How did the storm get into the water glass ?: Quotes that became idioms . dtv, 2011 entry: The last of the Mohicans
5. ↑ Wolfgang Hochbruck: "I have spoken". The representation and ideological function of Native American orality in North American literature . Series: Script Oralia, 32. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1991, pp. 130 ff.
6. ↑ Homepage of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Stockbridge-Munsee History ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ see also links below