Munsee

American  

[muhn-see] / ˈmʌn si /

noun

plural

Munsees,

plural

Munsee

1. a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.

2. the Eastern Algonquian language of the Munsee and closely related peoples, originally spoken in the lower Hudson Valley and upper Delaware Valley.

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Example Sentences

The hamlet of Monsey derived its name from the Munsee branch of the Lenape Native Americans who populated the area before the arrival of Dutch and British colonists.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2021

The narrative, created in 1939, is filled with historical inaccuracies and clichés of Native representation, said Bradley Pecore, a visual historian of Menominee and Stockbridge Munsee descent.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2019

While only Stuyvesant was originally identified, the new labels also take note of Oratamin, a respected leader of the Hackensack, a Munsee branch of the Lenape.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2019

Moreover, Munsee people had long been dedicated to teaching their little ones about politics and history.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2015

Munsee with Chippewa on the Thames, Ontario 131 “Moravians” of the Thames, Ontario 288 Delaware with Six Nations on Grand River, Ontario 134 1,750?

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley