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

Included is a welcome sign and land acknowledgment in the Lenape dialects of Unami and Munsee as well as English.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2020

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

The Munsee delegation returned with a request for 600 fathoms of the beads, the colonists counter-offered only half that; finally they all settled on 400 fathoms.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2015

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit, for your constitutional action, a report from the War Department, accompanied by a treaty with the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term) by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)