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Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History

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[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] Reservation Indian land MOHICAN (Shawano County). The Immanuel-Mohican Lutheran (see below) allotted under the terms of the Dawes Act to individual Church was built on the shores of Mission Lake in Red Springs Indian families in 1910. The present-day Stockbridge-Munsee In- Township in 1901. The church continues to serve a diverse congredian Reservation was reestablished on lands restored to Indian sov- gation of Indian and non-Indian communicants to the present day. ereignty within both towns under the terms of the Indian Reorganization Act passed in 1937 in part to help Indian people dis- MONTOURE (Shawano County). Monture Road, located just possessed by Dawes Act legislation. Much of the Stockbridge-Mun- north of the City of Shawano, bears the name of the Montour family see Indian community living in Red Springs at the time whose members have included several noted Delaware Indian leadsubsequently moved to Bartelme. Today, Bartelme Township is the ers (see in Pennsylvania Central and Ohio above). center of reservation occupation and activity. MORGAN SIDING (Shawano County). The hamlet of Morgan Siding, located several miles northwest of the Village of Gresham, BROTHERTOWN (Calumet County). The town and hamlet of has been a center of Stockbridge-Munsee Indian occupation since Brothertown and an inlet named Brothertown Bay preserve the 1896, when the Wisconsin Northern Railroad (acquired by the memory of the Brothertown Indian Reservation formerly located at Chicago and Northwestern a spur line through the locale from Greaside on the east bank of Lake Winnebago for Stockbridgers living sham (Oberly 2005:161-164). along the Fox River when the New York Indian Reservation below Green Bay was dissolved in 1831 (Oberly 2005:51). The residents of reservations at Brothertown and what had OLD STOCKBRIDGE (Shawano County). The Reformed Old become known as Stockbridge-on-the-Lake came to be collectively Stockbridge Church located in the hamlet of Morgan Siding on the called Stockbridge-Munsees after 200 Munsees from Ontario joined banks of the Red River just northwest of the Village of Gresham them in 1836 (Oberly 2005:55). Three years later, the Brothertown was established as a Presbyterian mission to the Stockbridge-MunIndians decided to disband their tribal organization and divide their see Indian Reservation community during the 1890s. The church reservation lands among community members, many of whom ac- continues its ministry to the present day. cepted American citizenship (Oberly 2005:63-68). Most Brothertowners electing to maintain their tribal identity moved south to join RED SPRINGS (Shawano County). The Wisconsin legislature with the Delaware main body in Kansas. Many of these people sub- erected the towns of Red Springs and Bartelme on portions of the sequently rejoined the Stockbridge-Munsees at their reservation (see Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation allotted to individual Indian families in 1910 (Oberly 2005:154-161). The township was the location below) established in Shawano County in 1856. of the largest concentration of Stockbridge-Munsee Indian populaKILLSNAKE (Calumet and Manitowac counties). The 20-mile- tion from 1910 until the late 1930s, when residents began moving long Killsnake River and the 5,777-acre Killsnake State Wildlife to New Moh-He-Con-Nuck at the northwest corner of Bartelme Refuge, located where the stream flows into the South Branch of Township (see above) that became the reservation center in 1937 the Manitowoc River, are named for John Killsnake. Killsnake was following the reservation’s reestablishment under the terms of the one of the three Munsee signatories (the others were the Munsee Indian Reorganization Act. chief, Captain Porter, and their war chief, James Rain) to the September 3, 1839, treaty in which the Stockbridges and Brothertowns STOCKBRIDGE (Calumet County). The Village of Stockbridge ceded two of their three reservation townships on Lake Winnebago and the Stockbridge Harbor inlet preserve the name of the Stockto the United States (Oklahoma State University Library 1999- bridge-on-the-Lake Indian community initially established for Stockbridge Indians in two townships set aside for them as a reser2000). vation east of Lake Winnebago in 1831. Stockbridge-on-the-Lake KOAN TUK (Shawano County). Koan Tuk Drive (“pine place” in remained the center of Stockbridge-Munsee occupation in WisconMohican) is located at the center of the Koan Tuk subdivision in sin until 1856, when most members of the community relocated to the present-day Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation (see below) farthe planning stages in 2013. ther northwest in Shawano County. The Indian Cemetery, located MILLER (Shawano County). Miller Creek, a tributary of the Red just north of the present-day Village of Stockbridge, contains the River that flows through Stockbridge-Munsee Indian Reservation final resting places of many Stockbridge-Munsee Indian people. land into Lower Red Lake at Gresham, bears the surname of a STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE (Shawano County). Many descenprominent Stockbridge-Munsee Indian family. dants of Munsees who formerly resided at Stockbridge, Brothertown, Kansas, and other way stations along the Delaware diaspora, MOH-HE-CON-NUCK (Shawano County). Stockbridge-Munsee 140 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet currently live in the Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation. A substantial TACONIC (Shawano County). The Stockbridge-Munsee commupercentage of Stockbridge-Munsee tribal members trace descent to nity’s