View Comments After hundreds of years of being dispossessed of its original homeland, the Mohican Nation, now located in Wisconsin, will have a small piece of its territory back in New York state. “Our history over there is so complex,” said Heather Bruegl, director of cultural affairs for the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation, which has its seat of government in Bowler in Shawano County. “This gives us a little bit of a footprint.” The 156-acre southern portion of Papscanee Island, just south of Albany, New York, was returned to the Mohican Nation this spring by the conservation group Open Space Institute after months of negotiation.