Snake Road and the Mohican people
03rd February 2022
During my recent 2021 visit to Catskill, NY I walked the Mawignack Preserve which designates land as the home of the Mohican People and describes how they were forced out of the Hudson Valley. On my first visit to this area in 2017 I chanced upon Snake Road before the completion of the preserve. I was grateful to return.
Catskill Creek, Mohican Homelands - Trail entrance off Snake Road. (Sept 2021)
Catskill Creek from Snake Road (Catskill, NY)
Seeing Red (View from Mawignack Preserve to privately owned land)
This last photo from the Mawignack Preserve website managed by the Greene Land Trust, Coxsackie NY
Some of the text: The lands here were home for thousands of years to the Mohican people.. near the confluence of Catskill and Katterskill creeks - stood a village under the leadership of a female sachem, or principal chief named Pewasck. In April 1649 when Pewasck and her son, Supahoof, signed a deed with Brant Van Slichenhorst for a large piece of property, they received coarse woolen cloth, a beaver jacket, and a knife. ... She would have expected that her people could return to the property. Mohican people continued to be pressured out of their Hudson Valley homelands through the 17th and mid-18th centuries.... Visit Mohican.com for more information.
Catskill Creek, Mohican Homelands - Trail entrance off Snake Road. (Sept 2021)
Catskill Creek from Snake Road (Catskill, NY)
Seeing Red (View from Mawignack Preserve to privately owned land)
This last photo from the Mawignack Preserve website managed by the Greene Land Trust, Coxsackie NY
Some of the text: The lands here were home for thousands of years to the Mohican people.. near the confluence of Catskill and Katterskill creeks - stood a village under the leadership of a female sachem, or principal chief named Pewasck. In April 1649 when Pewasck and her son, Supahoof, signed a deed with Brant Van Slichenhorst for a large piece of property, they received coarse woolen cloth, a beaver jacket, and a knife. ... She would have expected that her people could return to the property. Mohican people continued to be pressured out of their Hudson Valley homelands through the 17th and mid-18th centuries.... Visit Mohican.com for more information.