MUNSEE INDIANS IN CANADA

MUNSEE INDIANS MEANS "AT THE PLACE WHERE STONES ARE GATHERED" THEY HAVE THREE DIVISIONS IN DELAWARE, UNILASHTIGO, AND UNAMI. THE WOLF HAS BEEN THEIR TOTEM.
THEY ORIGINALLY OCCUPIED THE HEADQUARTERS OF DELAWARE RIVER IN NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, AND PENNSYLVANIA AS WELL AS THE WEST BANK OF THE HUDSON RIVER. THEIR COUNCIL VILLAGE WAS IN MUNISINK IN NEW JERSEY. THEY HAD SIX SUBTRIBES. THE MUNSEE AND MINISINK HAVE OFTEN BEEN CONFOUNDED. THE BANDS ON THE HUDSON WERE PROMINENT BUT AS WHITE SETTLEMENTS INCREASED MOST OF THEM JOINED THEIR RELATIVES ON THE DELAWARE. IN 1756 THOSE MUNSEE IN NEW YORK WERE PLACED WITH THE MOHAWK. A FRAUDULENT TREATY KNOWN AS THE 'WALKING PURCHASE' THE MUNSEE WERE FORCED TO REMOVE IN 1740 TO LANDS ASSIGNED TO THEM BY THE IROQUOIS. SOON THEY MOVED TO PENNSYLVANIA. SOME MOVED WEST WITH THE DELAWARE TO INDIANA WHEREE THEY VEIWED THE CHIPPEWA, SHAWNEE, AND OTHERS SO THE MUNSEE CEASED TO EXIST. MANY MOVED TO CANADA WHERE THEY CEASED TO EXIST. MANY MOVED TO CANADA WITH THEIR RELATIVES. THEY WERE KNOWN AS CHRISTIANS. THEY SETTLED NEAR MIDDLESEX COUNTY, ONTARIO AND THEY NUMBERED 119.

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