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The Wappinger were most closely related to the Munsee, [25] a large subgroup of the Lenape people. All three were among the Eastern Algonquian-speaking subgroup of the Algonquian peoples. They spoke using very similar Lenape languages, with the Wappinger dialect most closely related to the Munsee language.
The term Munsee is the English adaptation of a regularly formed word, mə́n'si·w ('person from Minisink'). Over time the British extended the term Munsee to any speaker of the Munsee language. Attempts to derive Munsee from a word meaning 'stone' or 'mountain,' as proposed by Brinton, are incorrect. [20]
Like other Wappinger people, the Wecquaesgeek suffered losses in Kieft's War between Dutch colonists and Indigenous tribes. [7] Around half of the military-aged men remaining to the tribe died fighting on behalf of the American Revolutionary Army , though none was granted citizenship after victory.
The Munsee (Delaware: Monsiyok) [3] are a subtribe and one of the three divisions of the Lenape. Historically, they lived along the upper portion of the Delaware River , the Minisink , and the adjacent country in New York , New Jersey , and Pennsylvania .
Together, the two formed a band and are federally recognized as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. Their 22,000-acre reservation is known as that of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians and is located near the town of Bowler. Since the late twentieth century, they have developed the North Star Mohican Resort and Casino on their ...
Picaro, though, refers to the group of people in this region via their shared Algonquin dialect: Munsee. This group spanned most of New Jersey into Pennsylvania and New York. They were among the ...
They spoke the Munsee dialect of Lenape. They, as well as the Hackensack , Raritan , Wappinger , Canarsee , were collectively known as the River Indians. Those groups living in the adjoining highlands to the west and valley to north have become known as the Munsee , [ 3 ] and sometimes the Esopus .
The Stockbridge–Munsee Community, also known as the Mohican Nation Stockbridge–Munsee Band, is a federally recognized Native American tribe formed in the late eighteenth century from communities of so-called "praying Indians" (or Moravian Indians), descended from Christianized members of two distinct groups: Mohican and Wappinger from the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and ...