Mohiigan/ People.

The Mohiigans (Maïngan – Yáw – Wolf-People).

A Traditionalist Spiritual (Teacher) cannot receive awards for carrying out Creators (Kiehtan), Wishes. Maïngan Deity, supreme being, God. Creator (Kiehtan) Mundo Weego (Manitou) Great Spirit of Creator Father Sky (Sagamore Kiehtan) of Creator.
On this page of this website I want to introduce you to Eastern Woodland American Traditional Native People and why the names Mohiigan, Mohegan and Pequot cannot be used in any sentence with the word casino in it.
The way life was before first contact, the way life is now after first contact and the way life would be if our people were left alone. Just because we the traditional long for life as it should be, does not mean that we wish to still hunt, fish and farm on foot with makeshift clothing and weapons.
We find no reason why all of the people’s on Mother Earth would not get along without taking and never giving.
Yes, it is true that we believe that everything belongs to Creator and that Creator allows us to borrow, that is why you will always find that no traditional will ever keep anything except family.
If our ancestors were alive today they would enjoy everything science can provide and I know that many of them would be prod to join in through schooling.
I will introduce you to Creator and why we believe that creator is neither man or woman, Just what is a Traditional American Native person Sachems and why there is said to be no living Sachems and of course why this is not true, Chiefs and a real chiefs position in a traditional American Native tribe, Clan mothers, Clan Grandmothers, Grandfathers and their position with our people, Medicine men Medicine Women and the real reason why you should never know who they are, Uncasvillage, Turtle hill, Turtle Island, Spirituality, Uncas, Shamans, Warlocks, Witches and why there was none and still should not be any in our traditional way of life, Casinos and why we the traditional will never own or join one.
Science and why I know that our ancestors believed and used science.
Aquine and why we use the word even now,
the word Aquai and why we also still use this word.
The Mohiigan People of Connecticut
Just who are the American native eastern woodland
The Mohiigans, ‘Maïngan – Yáw – Wolf-People’,
(Mohiigan), people and where did they come from?
Scholars, archeologists, anthropologists and just plain people have been trying to trace our people the Mohiigan’s’ for years now.
I believe most would agree to start someplace in the middle east or the middle of Africa, this is the place that is agree on as the start of our life as we now know it.
Religion set aside for now only so that I may make the point of where my people got that name, many now believe that their ancestors followed the food chain across the Striates
(what was then a land bridge between what is now Russia & Alaska)
across
(what is now Canada)
and then our people continued down into what is now called
(the Great Lakes in upper New York Lower Canada).
My ancestors, a part of the (Monheags) people, after some time became closer to Mother Earth as farmers; they became so good at farming that ‘other villages’ wanted their land
and
pushed them all the way across the land and over what we call the Pequot river
(Thames River).
After so many years of being beat up and pushed around, our people finely learned how to fight back, so when the villages of this new land started pushing, our people pushed back and pushed back so well they ended up with all of the land!
When the Europeans showed up and stated pushing they pushed back and pushed so hard that the Europeans called our ancestors the Piquet’s
(destroyers),
later the English changer the name to
Pequot’s.
When Grand Shechaim Wopigwooit, one of many of our peace loving Shechaim was crossedd in 1631
(there should never be a vote of the people).
However, two names came up as too who should be the next Shechaim,
Unkas had seniority and the blood line and Sassacus wanted war so he
(Sassacus)
became the next Shechaim of the Pequot people?
This is wrong as wrong could be, to go against the wishes of our ancestors!
After many years, many wars and the loss of so many young braves of the Pequot people, Unkas, now (War chief),
tried to get Shechaim Sassacus to stop the wars and try peace with the Europeans and neighboring tribes.
As Unkas explained,
Every time the Europeans lost a warrior, ten more would come to fight in his place;
the Pequot’s had no replacements and would soon no longer exist.
The trickster
(Coyote, Satan)
blinded the eyes of Sassacus and most of the Pequot people,
So, Unkas took all that wished to go over the Pequot river to what is now called
the Great falls
and changed the name back to Mohiigan’s.
This group of his people asked Unkas to take his rightful place as Shechaim Ohjieshan Unkas
of this group of Mohiigans.
Martha, his wife, had one husband, Shechaim Ohjieshan Unkas
had many wives.
Now
Because of this
Sassacus considered Shechaim Ohjieshan Unkas
and his people to be just another of his many enemy so the Pequot’s. Immediately attacked this group across the river at a place now known as Fort Shantok park. named after one of the Mohiigan braves,
that held off this brutal attack from their relatives.
Eventually the Europeans and all of the Pequot neighboring tribes grew tired of this constant fighting joined forces
and
regardless of what you now read in the papers
or
from some people.
Completely decimated the entire Pequot tribe, now called nation!
It was at this time that Unkas became
“The Grand Shechaim Ohjieshan of all of the people”.
Because of new wars with the Narragansett’s
(Many time were much more brutal to the peace-loving smaller tribes than the old Pequot tribe)
Shechaim Ohjieshan Unkas moved a small band of non-royal mixed clan
of his new tribe and settled them as lookouts in the area now known as Fort Shantok.
As usual the European’s began misspelling the name of our people and started calling them
Mohegans!
http://www.sachem-uncas.com/villages.html
As Paul Harvey liked to say,
“Now you know the rest of the story”.
As told to me by our Elders.
“AHO”
O K I may need to go through this once again before you read the following article.
In an Eastern Woodland American Native Society
(a Matriarch Society)
the Shechaim Ohjieshan (Shechaim), is the ruler of the people.
This person is born into the Royal family
no one can vote for a Shechaim (Shes-um).
This person male or Female
can designate anyone of his people as chief
and
that person will be a chief for as long as the Shechaim needs that person to be chief of a job for the tribe.
Each tribe has a number of clan mothers with one chosen
by the Shechaim as head Clan Mother.
The tribe also has a council of Elders and this council is set up and run by the clan mothers.
The entire tribe collects and hands over everything to their Shechaim,
then the Shechaim distributes everything through-out the tribe!
Once everything is evenly distributed the Shechaim and family must rely on the tribe for the family’s care and comfort!
This has a tendency to have a very good Shechaim.
Prior to her death on July 15, 1929,
and
because he was the next in line
Alice Melinda Storey/Tracy/ Fielding
appointed
William James Storey
to be Shechaim Tallfox
and
her choice to rule
The Mohiigans, ‘Maïngan – Yáw – Wolf-People’, (Mohiigan).
Alice Storey/Tracy Fielding was at that time known as the Princess (Shechaim) of the Mohiigan’s, and is a direct descendant of Unkas, acknowledged leader of the Mohiigan Indian Tribe,
during the “Pequot War” of 1637, and thereafter.

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This title was affirmed as
“Shechaim for Life” by the Officers of Tribal Council of Mohiigan Indians
and on November 18, 1933
Shechaim Tallfox appointed his cousin John Hamilton as his War Chief of land claims
and
this was recognized and supported by the Mohiigan’s from 1933 through the 1960s.
In the late 1960s, War Chief Hamilton was authorized by the Council of Descendants of Mohiigan Indians to act on its behalf in matters pertaining to the relations between the Mohiigan Indian Tribe
and
the State of Connecticut.
At that time, Fowler served on the Council under war chief John Hamilton.
In 1970,
A faction of Mohiigan’s became dissatisfied with the prospects
of the Mohiigan Indian Tribe filing of land claim suit against the tribe’s neighbors.
So at an unofficial Council meeting in May 1970,
sought to elect a new leader of the Mohiigan Tribe?
War Chief Hamilton rejected the asserted authority of the Council to replace him so he and his followers left the meeting.
The remaining Mohiigan Indians and non Indians at the meeting elected Courtland Fowler as their leader??????????????
The total number of people casting votes was fewer than 10
according to public statements made by Courtland Fowler.
Fewer than 10 people tried
and succeeded
to overthrow the Shechaim’s leadership tradition
older than recorded history
and
leave the majority of Mohiigan’s out.
Of course
this delighted the federal and state government because it closed all of our treaties forever!
Despite this separation however, from the 1970s until 1994,
no Mohiigan Indian was excluded from participation in traditional practices, events or ceremonies by virtue of association with either the Storey/Hamilton or Fowler faction of Mohiigan Indians.
War Chief Hamilton continued to pursue a land claim suit on behalf of the Mohiigan Tribe, and retained counsel for the purpose of prosecuting the land claim suit.
In 1977,
“The Mohiigan Tribe,”
acting through War Chief Hamilton,
filed a land claim suit in federal district court in Connecticut against the State of Connecticut, asserting that aboriginal and historic claims and titles to over 2,000 acres in Montville, Connecticut
had been extinguished in violation of the Non-Intercourse Act.
War Chief Hamilton further filed a notice with the Bureau of Indian Affairs
(“BIA”)
seeking federal acknowledgment of
“The Mohiigan Tribe” in 1978.
Both the land claim suit and the acknowledgment petition were filed on behalf of the Mohiigan Tribe by Attorney Jerome Griner,
who had been retained by Hamilton under his authority as Chief of Land claims.
From May 1970 through 1979, the Fowler faction continued to actively and publicly oppose both the land claim suit and the federal acknowledgment petition.
From 1979 to 1981,
the Fowler faction organized an entity called the
“Mohiigan Tribal Council”
and
adopted a constitution for its governance in 1980.
At around this time, Attorney Griner, counsel of record for the Mohiigan Tribe in the land claim suit and the federal acknowledgment petition, ceased accepting direction from Chief Hamilton. and
instead began to take direction from the Fowler faction, without notifying either the federal court
or the BIA of his change in clients.
WHY?
(M O N E Y)!
Upon discovering that Attorney Griner had begun to serve the interests of the Fowler faction,
in 1981.
Hamilton discharged him and retained separate counsel from Attorney Robert Cohen.
Although the State raised the issue of the propriety of filings by two attorneys on behalf of
“The Mohiigan Tribe”
in the land claim suit when Cohen filed his appearance in 1981 and then later in 1989, the issue of authorization for the filings of Griner and Cohen was never resolved by the district court.
The Fowler faction amended its constitution in 1984
and
renamed itself the Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut
(“MTIC”).
In 1985, Attorney Griner filed detailed documentation before the BIA in support of the 1978 acknowledgment petition on behalf of
“The Mohegan Tribe, petitioner.”
Griner submitted an MTIC membership roll of 1,017 members, claiming that this roll relied on lists of Mohegan Indians prepared by the State of Connecticut.
The BIA then placed the petition under
“active consideration.”
Also in 1985, the State of Connecticut filed a formal opposition to federal acknowledgment with the BIA,
characterizing Hamilton and his followers and the Fowler group as two factions of a single, unitary Mohiigan Tribe.
In support of this position, the State relied on a 1979 letter from a member of the Fowler faction stating that
“‘they do not have a tribal organization because they are going to organize to form a tribal group for the sole purpose of combating War Chief John Hamilton.’”
In November 1989, the BIA announced its proposed decision that the United States would not acknowledge the Mohiigan Tribe, based on its finding that
from 1941 to the date of the rejection, the Mohiigan Tribe did not demonstrate sufficient social community or sufficient political authority and influence as required under 25 CPR 83.7 (b) and (c).
The BIA did not examine the files and records of Hamilton or the Council prior to issuing the proposed rejection.
In 1990,
Cohen submitted a response to the BIA pointing out that the BIA had never examined these files, and in which he narrated the internal leadership and external political and land claim efforts of Hamilton from 1941 until his death in 1988.
Because of the crossing of War Chief Hamilton
And
the crossing in 1986 of
Sachem Tallfox’s
last living son
Shechaim Ziek Clarence J Storey,
another
Mohiigan tribal faction started under the leadership of Eleanor Fortin a White Person and
The Secretary/driver of War Chief John E Hamilton.