People Of The Waters That Are Never Still
11,000 BCE • Hudson River
"A great people traveled from the north and west. For many, many years they moved across the land, leaving settlements in rich river valleys as others moved on. Reaching the eastern edge of the country, some of these people settled on the river later renamed the Delaware. Others moved north and settled in the valley of a river where the waters, like those in their original homeland, were never still. They named this river Mahicannituck and called themselves the muh-he-con-neok, the people of the waters that are never still."
Mohican Oral History as told by late 1700s Mohican Historian, Hendrick Aupaumut, published in “Hudson Valleys Tribal History” Hudson Valley Magazine, 6.24.2017 http://www.hvmag.com/Hudson-Valley-Magazine/July-2016/The-Native-People-of-the-Hudson-Valley
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