Munsee

[ muhn-see ]

noun

, plural Mun·sees, (especially collectively) Mun·see

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.

Example Sentences

Governor Willem Kieft, eager to destroy Indigenous resistance to the colony, ordered assaults on sites where Munsee-speaking peoples had sought sanctuary.

From Time