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a case the migration traditions wc meet with applying to the Mohcgan- 

 Pequot may be relics of an earlier age and might perhaps concern all 

 the southern New England Algonkian, who, it may be conceded, 

 undoubtedly did at some time migrate into the coast lands from the 

 westward; turning toward which region now we find lies in the 

 direction of their nearest dialectic and cultural affinities, the region 

 of the Hudson. 



The local Mohegan migration legend may be even a reflection of 

 the general eastern Algonkian migration belief which finds its expres- 

 sion in the Walam Olum " of the Delaware. To proceed a step 

 farther in tracing the evidence, we may even cite the passage in this 

 much-discussed, but evidently authentic, national legend. It says 

 "Wapanand tumewand waplowaan," which is translated by 

 Brinton's authorities as "the Easterners and the Wolves go north- 

 east," and identified in his notes as the "Wapings," Wappinger 

 (Wappinger-Mattabesec group of western Connecticut), and Minsi.'- 

 The passage concerned ma\', it seems probable, refer to the occasion 

 when the Delaware eastward migration bifurcated in the Hudson 

 River region, if in the text Wapanand denotes the Wappinger, and 

 "wolves" denotes the Mahican by one of their synonyms. The 

 denotations, however, are far from clear. ("The Easterners and those 

 who were wolves went northeast" is the correct translation of the 

 passage in Delaware, as I have learned in a recent study of the Walam 

 Olum text, conducted under the authorization of the Pennsylvania 

 Historical Commission, with the aid of James Webber, a Delaware 

 e.x-chief, as informant.) 



As valid as the theory of eastern Algonkian migration has come to 

 be regarded by ethnologists, no one has, so far as I am aware, at- 

 tempted to give a date for the New England migration legend except 

 Doctor DLxon." He thinks that the bands of southwestern New 

 England were the most recent comers and were affiliated with the 

 Lenape, and that the latter arrived on the coast as late as the end 

 of the fifteenth centmy. This, however, I judge might be placed 

 somewhat earlier. 



The question of the identity of the population which antedated 

 the recent historic tribes in the coast regions does not concern us 

 here, since the present inquiry bears only upon the contemporary 

 Indians, but the assumption of earlier waves of Algonkian migra- 

 tion having entered the whole northeastern region represents, as 

 Doctor Dixon outlines it, the concurrence of general opinion. 



THE TRIBAL NAME AND SYNONYMS 



A few secondary matters concerning identity arise from the material 

 at hand which seem to deserve a word or two of comment. It will 

 be noticed that Mrs. Fielding uses the term MoTir'lcs to denote her 



" The Lcnapc and their Legends, D. O. Brinton, pp. 20S-209. 



" Brinton, op. cit., p. 2.32. 



'> K. B. Dixon, Proceedings of the -American .Antiquarian Society, .\pril, 1914, p. II. 



