Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a subgroup of the Delaware group of Native American peoples, formerly inhabiting northern New Jersey and southeastern New York, and later also inhabiting Ontario.
- noun The Algonquian language of this people.
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- proper noun An
endangered EasternAlgonquian language , one of the twoDelaware languages, spoken aboriginally in the vicinity of what is nowNew York City .
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Examples
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Mr. Paterson announced the compact on Monday at a press conference with Stockbridge-Munsee and local officials in Sullivan County, where the tribe and its development partner, Trading Cove Associates, plan to build a 584,000-square-foot casino and resort.
Governor Is Mum on Casino Dealings Jacob Gershman 2010
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Officials with the federal bureau and a spokeswoman for the Stockbridge-Munsee didn ' t respond to calls requesting comment.
Catskills Casino Closer to Reality Jacob Gershman 2010
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They came to Pennsylvania in the 1690s, some groups settling on the lower Susquehanna, and others with the Munsee near Easton.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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And areas around Munsee, to the south, far less, only about four inches.
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As part of a new reality show called "Armed and Fabulous" -- "Armed and Famous," sorry, Latoya and other stars, including Eric Estrada and Jack Osborne have been sworn in as reserve officers of the Munsee police department.
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Attention citizens of Munsee (ph), Indiana, Latoya Jackson is in your town and she ` s got a gun.
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York Indians, more particularly those known as the St.ckbridge, Munsee and Brothertown tribes, the Six Nations and the St. Regis tribe.
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians Elias Johnson
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Other chiefs succeed, after whom "the Easterners and the Wolves" -- probably the Mahican or Wappinger and the Munsee -- move off to the northeast.
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We have thus a traditional record of a war of conquest carried on against the Talligewi by four successive chiefs, and a succession of about twenty-five chiefs between the final expulsion of that tribe and the appearance of the whites, in which interval the Nanticoke, Shawano, Mahican, and Munsee branched off from the parent tribe of the Delawares.
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Of these the Munsee held the Upper Delaware and were considered the defenders of the frontier against the incursions of the hostile Iroquois.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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