The Muhheconneok, or Mohicans, whose name refers to the tidal Hudson River, inhabited the upper Hudson Valley and parts of western Massachusetts and Connecticut until the American Revolution. They lived in settlements along streams, shared bark-covered wigwams, raised corn, squash, and beans in fertile river lowlands, hunted deer and small game, gathered plants in forests and meadows, and relied on fish from the valley's waterways. European arrival in the Hudson Valley in the early 1600s brought trade with Dutch settlers for metal tools, kettles, blankets, firearms, beaver pelts, and other furs, but also deadly diseases that killed more than half the Mohicans and other Native Americans in the region. By the mid-1700s, conflict with other Native Americans and colonists, land loss, and missionary activity led many Mohicans to move to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. After the Revolutionary War, they resettled in central New York in hopes of reestablishing their communities, but by the 1820s and 1830s they had moved to Wisconsin under the federal Indian removal policy, where they joined with Munsees from the lower Hudson Valley. Today, the federally recognized Stockbridge-Munsee Community continues to assert its cultural ties to New York's Hudson Valley.