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Article: Stockbridge Indian Settlement
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STOCKBRIDGE INDIAN SETTLEMENT
STOCKBRIDGE INDIAN SETTLEMENT.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Stockbridge-Munsee band of the Mahican Nation occupied a 46,000-acre reservation in northeastern Wisconsin. Seven hundred of the tribe's fourteen hundred members lived on the reservation, which boasted a health clinic, services for the elderly, a historical museum and library, a golf course, and a casino. The Stockbridge people, formed from an amalgamation of Mahicans, Wappingers, and Housatonics, began their journey to Wisconsin in western Massachusetts during the 1730s, when a small band of Mahicans joined a mission at the town of Stockbridge. Even though the Stockbridges ...