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The Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians is asking Stockbridge leaders to approve a return of the site off Main Street to tribal control. The parcel, including a monument to ....
STOCKBRIDGE â For descendants of the townâs original settlers, the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, a return to their ancestral homelands always packs a powerful, emotional punch. That was especially evident last week, as several tribal members dedicated a new public exhibit at the Trustees of Reservationsâ Mission House at 19 Main St. Artifacts from the Mohican Nationâs archives went on display, curated from their museum in Bowler, Wis., in the area where the descendants have resided since the 1850s, after their forced exile from Stockbridge and a long westward journey, enduring tremendous hardship. In the 1730s, after the 125-member tribe arrived from New Yorkâs Upper Hudson Valley, Stockbridge â it originally was named Indian Town â was settled as a missionary community for the Mohicans and English to coexist and co-govern. The Rev. John Sergeant, an English settler, created a mission house in the town to promote C ....