The Mohicans and Their Land, 1609-1730

The first in Shirley Dunn’s prized two-volume survey of Mohican history, featuring events occurring in the Hudson, Mohawk and Housatonic valleys during the first one hundred years after the arrival of the Dutch.

“Over the years, much attention has been devoted to Dutch-Iroquois relations, mostly neglecting the important role played by the Mohicans of the upper Hudson Valley.  In this book, Shirley Dunn deftly navigates through the complex and important relationship between the Dutch and the Mohicans.  As a bonus, Dunn’s work brings together, for the first time, most recorded land transactions of the Mohicans.” — Charles Gehring, New Netherland Project

“Shirley Dunn’s book is the latest on the Mohicans, whose aboriginal homeland was the upper Hudson Valley of eastern New York State and whose descendants comprise the present-day Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe of Wisconsin. Dunn’s book is the culmination of twenty years of research into recorded land transactions between Mohicans and Euro-Americans. Embedded within these transactions are fascinating details of 17th and early 18th century Mohican social, political, and economic life not recorded elsewhere.” — George R. Hamell, Senior Anthropologist, New York State Museum