Munseen.adj.

1756 Jrnl. Sir William Johnson's Proc. with Indians 5 Aug. in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1856) 7 178 Sir William..called a Meeting of all the Nations here viz Mohawks Conajoharees, Oneidas, Tuscaroras, Cayougas Onondogas Senecas Delawares, Shawanese and Monseys.

1794 C. I. La Trobe tr. G. H. Loskiel Hist. Mission United Brethren iii. vii. 119 The Monsys, one of the Delaware tribes, were secretly contriving to separate themselves from the body of the nation.

1854 J. W. Taylor Hist. State Ohio 1650–1787 33 The Unamis, Unalachtgo and Minsi... The latter, also called Monseys or Muncies, were considered the most warlike and active branch of the Lenape.

1877 L. H. Morgan Anc. Society vi. 173 The Munsees are an offshoot from the Delawares, and have the same gentes, the Wolf, the Turtle and the Turkey.

1952 J. R. Swanton Indian Tribes N. Amer. (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 145) 301 A few Munsee accompanied the Delaware proper to Oklahoma and 21 were reported there in 1910.

1986 H. Kraft Lenape viii. 236 In the Treaty of St. Mary, Ohio, signed on August 3, 1818, the Delaware and Munsee..were forced to give the United States occupancy rights to all lands in Indiana.

1828 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 377 N'mamentschi, ‘I rejoice’. This is Munsee... N'schiweléndam, ‘I am sorry’. This word is Munsee.

1912 Amer. Anthropologist 14 508 The list is of considerable philological interest..because the Delaware material..is not entirely Minsi. There can be no doubt that we have here Unami and Unalachtigo elements as well as Minsi.

1978 I. Goddard in W. C. Sturtevant Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XV. 236/2 As a linguistic term Munsee includes all groups of any period that spoke dialects of the language spoken by the Munsee group, even though not all such groups were or are Munsees in the political sense.

1779 F. Vernon Let. in E. G. Lengel Papers G. Washington Revolutionary War Series (2010) XX. 304 (note) The Muncy Chief..hath related it.

1797 B. S. Barton New Views Origin Tribes Amer. Pref. p. ix A few of the Chippewa, and part of the Munsi, words were communicated to me by Mr. Heckewelder.

1826 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 76 There is, through the whole book, such a want of precision in the translations, and such a confusion of Delaware and Munsee words, as render the deductions very unsatisfactory.

1834 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 368 (heading) Words in the Minsi dialect.

1859 H. S. Baird Recoll. Early Hist. N. Wisconsin 323 The United States Senate kindly gave the Stockbridge and Munsee tribes, jointly, two townships of land.

1986 H. Kraft Lenape viii. 235 Other remnant Munsee-speaking bands—for example, the Esopus, Tappan, and Mahicans—were forced from their eastern homelands.

1993 Toronto Star 18 Apr. b5/1 34 No more than 10 people in the world speak the Munsee dialect of Delaware and all of them live on this small reserve southwest of London [Ontario].