"Last of the Mohegan's", he said with a grin.

What's in a Native American Name?

I had an eye doctors appointment yesterday, always an experience after a cornea transplant.

That's another story.

That was an extra tuff day because the Orlando V A is stuck in a Holden pattern

  now waiting for the new V A hospital in Medical City to be built.

I needed to go to an outside doctor so, this meant a start from scratch, not a fun day for me, my driver and puppy in Orlando. Scary place.

Any how my doctor and I (great doctor) started talking about Native Americans after he spotted my pouch.

"Last of the Mohegan's", he said with a grin.

Will I was for a while.

He said that he had another person for an appointment a few days ago that said there are thousands of Mohegan's around.

I told him that, from the early 1940's ( My birth) until the late 1970's there was never more than 13 families at the tribal monthly meeting.

After congress passed some funny laws and people built casinos, Mohegan's and Pequot's came out of the woodwork?

Strange thing wouldn't you say?

Next we went into the life of our first Sachem, Uncas.

The Last of the Mohicans James Fennimore Cooper.

This is a fictional story about a great friendship between Hawkeye, the White Man, and Chingachook, the chief of the Mohegan's?

The name is not spelled the same.

However, no one knows or seems to care, just like, where did all of those long ago dead Indians come from?

Must have also come from a fiction?