Mahicans

Variant of Mahican

Mahican definition

☆ Ma·hi·can (mə hē′kən)

noun

  1. pl. Mahicans -·cans or Mahican -·can a member of a North American Indian people that lived chiefly in the upper Hudson Valley
  2. the Algonquian language of this people

Etymology: self-designation

adjective

of the Mahicans or their language or culture

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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