Word: mohican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Race Day at New London. It is not only the traditional boat race (that started back in 1852) that lures every alumnus who can get away for a day from the serious pursuits of life, but also the fun of wading through the broken glass in the Mohican Hotel and shouting long-forgotten nicknames through the narrow streets of Connecticut's famed old whaling port...
...AMERICA AWAKE, THE OXFORD GROUP, STOCKBRIDGE. With the local post of the American Legion the Groupers paraded, held a meeting in front of the Stockbridge town hall. Leader of the parade, in a dirty, beaded leather jacket, was an Indian chief named Uhm-Pa-Tuth, billed as a Stockbridge (Mohican) Indian who had ended up on a reservation in Wisconsin, there turned to God and away from civilization and education which, he told the meeting, "don't make an Indian or anybody else any bet-ter." Marchers in the parade carried the flags of 48 States and 18 nations...
Died. William Dick (Makwa Monpuy or Maq-uua-pey), 76, certified by ethnologists as actually "the last of the Mohicans''; in Milwaukee's County Hospital. With no one to talk to in the melodious Mohican tongue he learned from his grandmother, he was able to recall only 300 words of it for a University of Chicago anthropologist last year...