Mohican Language Resources
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Our LanguageStockbridge-Munsee Community
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Introduction to the language of the Stockbridge MohicansBy Dr. Robert Shubinski (Bravearrow)
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Mohican DictionaryCompiled by Lion G. Miles. Based chiefly on sources from the years 1740 to 1830.
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A religious primer in Mohican, 1818A compilation of religious texts translated into the Mohican language by Stockbridge Indian sachems John W. Quinney and Capt. Hendrick Aupaumut. Includes The Assembly's Shorter Catechism; Dr. Watts' Shorter Catechism for Children; John III; Matthew V; Matthew VII; and select Psalms.
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Northeast/Southeast: Mahican/Stockbridge, John Peabody Harrington papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian InstitutionDigitized handwritten research notes of linguist John Peabody Harrington. Materials consist of comparative vocabulary, comparative grammar, comparative linguistic notes, and writings.
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Schmick's Mahican Dictionary
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Publication Date: 1991Schmick's Miscellanea linguae nationis Indicae Mahikan comprises two volumes (322pp.) of manuscript vocabulary and notes recorded between about 1753 and 1767. It consists of words and phrases in Mahican, written phonologically, and translated into their German equivalents. First printed in 1991, this volume is the first Mahican and English dictionary based on the Moravian variety or dialect. -
Observations on the language of the Muhhekaneew Indians
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Call Number: Online (click title to view)Publication Date: 1788
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A Tale in the Hudson River Indian LanguagePrince, J. (1905). American Anthropologist, 7(1), new series, 74-84.
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Notes on Mahican: Dialects, Sources, Phonemes, Enclitics, and Analogies [PDF]Goddard, I. (2008). Algonquian Papers-Archive, 39.
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A Vocabulary of Stockbridge Mahican
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ISBN: 9781889758442Publication Date: 2004Contains early linguistic data from the Stockbridge Mahicans, including 84 words collected from multiple speakers by Benjamin Smith Barton, 80 words obtained in 1804 by William Jenks, and 39 numerals from a series of letters prior to 1827.