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Munsee
[ muhn-see ]
noun
, plural Mun·sees, (especially collectively) Mun·see
- a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- 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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Governor Willem Kieft, eager to destroy Indigenous resistance to the colony, ordered assaults on sites where Munsee-speaking peoples had sought sanctuary.
From Time
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