Definition of: Mahican

(mə·hē′kən) noun
One of a tribe of North American Indians of Algonquian linguistic stock formerly occupying the territory from the Hudson River to Lake Champlain; later, one of an Algonquian tribe between the Hudson River and Narragansett Bay, dialectally divided into the Mohegans of the Thames and lower Connecticut rivers, and the Mohicans, occupying both banks of the Hudson. [<Algonquian, lit., a wolf]