Mahican (redirected from Mahicans)

Ma·hi·can  (m-hkn) also Mo·hi·can (m-, m-)

n. pl. Mahican or Ma·hi·cans also Mohican or Mo·hi·cans

1.

a. A Native American confederacy of subtribes formerly inhabiting the upper Hudson River valley from Albany south to the Catskill Mountains and north to Lake Champlain. Present-day descendants live in Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

b. A member of this confederacy.

2. The Algonquian language of the Mahican.

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Mahican [məˈhiːkən]

n pl -cans, -can

(Social Science / Peoples) (Linguistics / Languages) a variant of Mohican

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Mahican - a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic Mohican Algonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
	2.	Mahican - the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican Mohican Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains