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The Stockbridge-Munsee Community is a federally recognized Indian tribe consisting of Mohican and Munsee (Lenape) peoples. Their land-base, the Stockbridge-Munsee Indian Reservation, is 22,000 acres located at in Shawano County, Wisconsin, which encompasses the towns of Bartelme and Red Springs.〔(Wisconsin Department of Transportation-Shawano County map )〕 Among their enterprises is the successful North Star Mohican Resort and Casino. In settlement of a longstanding land claim in New York, in 2010, the state of New York agreed to give the tribe 330 acres in Sullivan County in the Catskills and 2 acres in Madison County in exchange for dropping their larger claim for 23,000 acres of land in Madison (near the city of Syracuse), which they had occupied in the early nineteenth century. The state granted them the right to develop the Catskills property as a gaming casino. The deal is controversial and opposed by numerous interests, including other federally recognized tribes in New York. ==History== The Stockbridge-Munsee members are descendants of tribes located in the Hudson River valley, New England and the mid-Atlantic areas, respectively, at the time of European encounter. The Stockbridge were Mahican from the upper Hudson area, who migrated into western Massachusetts in and near Stockbridge before the American Revolutionary War. They became Christianized Indians. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, they migrated west to central New York. They shared a 22,000-acre portion of the Oneida Reservation south of Syracuse. The Munsee were Lenape located in the northern part of their total territory. As they spoke the Munsee dialect, one of the major three branches of the language, they were sometimes referred to by colonists and settlers by that term. They occupied coastal areas around present-day New York City, the western part of Long Island, and northern New Jersey. Lenape to the South spoke two other dialect variations. Many Munsee-speaking Lenape had migrated from New Jersey to western Oneida County, New York by 1802 after the American Revolutionary War. They were joined by Brotherton Indians of New Jersey (from a reservation in Burlington County, New Jersey), as well as by the Stockbridge Mahican. Eventually the two groups agreed to removal together to present-day Wisconsin. They share a 22,000-acre reservation in Shawano County, Wisconsin that was taken from land initially reserved for the Menominee, whose homelands these were. Since the late twentieth century, they have developed the successful North Star Mohican Resort and Casino to generate revenues for welfare and economic development. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stockbridge-Munsee Community」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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