Talk:Saratoga Springs, New York/Archives/2013
Latest comment: 10 years ago by Camelbinky in topic skateboard park
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Mohegan/Mahican
I believe the Saratoga area was inhabited by the Mahican indians, not the Mohegan people. The article on the former has a map which includes this area and also gives the Stockbridge connection. The latter says they inhabited the "lower Connecticut region." I often get these two groups confused. The Mahicans were the "River Indians" mentioned in early sources who inhabited the upper Hudson valley from (perhaps) Albany to Fort Edward? Peter Flass (talk) 15:44, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
- Part of the problem is that the book Last of the Mohicans creating a third name and that all three names are similar in sound and in linguistic origin. The Mahican people were the ones in the area, not the Mohegans who still today have a casino in CT. They are all Algonquin peoples as opposed to the Iroquoian people, specifically Mohawks, who pushed the Mahicans out of the area and were big in the Mohawk Valley including Schenectady and have the Cohoes Falls as one of their historical and religious locations. Ill be bold and make the changesCamelbinky (talk) 16:10, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
skateboard park
c'mon people, this is a minor topic and people seem to have axes to grind. i didn't think the original was all that biased, lets not go too far the other way.
- An entire paragraph, let alone subsection on a skateboard park is excessive unless proven to be notable in its own right. I'll be bold and make sweeping changes in the next few days if other editors can not work together on a compromise NPOV-style sentence.Camelbinky (talk) 21:00, 22 June 2013 (UTC)