The Muhheconneok, called Mahicans by the Dutch and Mohicans by the English, were Native Americans whose name means "People of the Waters that are Never Still" and refers to the tidal Hudson River. They inhabited the upper Hudson Valley and parts of western Massachusetts and Connecticut until the American Revolution, living in streamside settlements where families shared bark-covered wigwams. They 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 early 1600s brought trade opportunities through Dutch goods such as metal tools, kettles, blankets, and firearms exchanged for beaver pelts and other furs, but it also brought 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 hoping to reestablish their communities, but in the 1820s and 1830s they moved to Wisconsin under 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.