Monsii

The Monsii, or Munsee, were a northern division of the Lenape, living around the upper Delaware and the western bank of the Hudson. Their council village was Minisink, probably in present-day New Jersey. In 1669 they aided the Esopus against Dutch colonists and were defeated.

After the Walking Purchase of 1737, many Munsee were driven from the Delaware to the Susquehanna and then west to the Ohio. During the American Revolution many Christian Munsee moved to Canada; others joined Stockbridge communities and later migrated toward Wisconsin.