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The Wappinger (/ ˈ w ɒ p ɪ n dʒ ər / WOP-in-jər) [3] were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut.. At the time of first contact in the 17th century they were primarily based in what is now Dutchess County, New York, but their territory included the east bank of the Hudson in what became both Putnam and ...
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]
The Wecquaesgeek (also Manhattoe and Manhattan) were a Munsee-speaking band of Wappinger people who once lived along the east bank of the Hudson River in the southwest of today's Westchester County, New York, [1] and down into the Bronx. [2]
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 ...
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 .
The Siwanoy spoke Munsee, a Delaware language, which was an Eastern Algonquian language. [6] Nohham Cachat-Schilling of the Massachusetts Ethical Archaeology Society writes that the Siwaony might not have spoken Munsee but instead may have spoken Paugusset or another dialect.
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 ...
The Munsee lived in the colony's northwestern reaches, the Highlands, while the Wappinger lived to the northeast in the Hudson Valley. The definition of these groups as they are known today is often from the perception of the colonizing Dutch, who tended to call the existing people by the name of a location within their territory, thus creating ...