Munsee People

Munsee indian People

To answer your questions,

How did they travel?

What crops did they grow?

What tools/weapons did they use?

Where in Pennsylvania did they live?

The Munsee people made birch bark canoes or carved dugout canoes from wood.

Corn, beans, and squash.

They used tools like bows and arrows, swords, and atlatls.

The Munsee tribe originally lived in southern New York, northern New Jersey, and southeastern Connecticut. But Dutch and British colonists forced them to leave their homeland in the 1700's. Some Munsee’s retreated to Canada, where they still live today. Others joined the Mohican tribe and ended up moving to Wisconsin together, where they are known as the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe. Still other Munsee’s joined their relatives the Lenin Lenape on their trails westward, and most of their descendants live in Oklahoma today.

Also they walked. And by the time you are reading this, you probably fly around in hovercrafts and don't know what walking means.

What are atlatls?

Atlatls are like bows but thay look like sticks.

Which instruments did they use?

What animals did they hunt?

What were their houses like?

Drums and other percussion.

Deer.

They lived in villages of wigwams

What was the role of men in the tribe?

Munsee Indian men were hunters and sometimes went to war to protect their families

What was the role of women in the tribe

women were farmers and also did most of the child care and cooking.

What was the role of child's in the tribe?

Many Munsee children like to go hunting and fishing with their fathers. In the past, Indian kids had more chores and less time to play, just like early colonial children. But they did have dolls, ball games, and toys like miniature bows and arrows.

Language

Habitat &

pronouncement

(Munsee is pronounced "MUN-see")

Munsee Indians all speak English today. Some elders also speak their native Munsee language. Munsee is an Algonquian language closely related to Lenape and Nanticoke.

The Way out

The Munsee tribe originally lived in southern New York, northern New Jersey, and southeastern Connecticut. But Dutch and British colonists forced them to leave their homeland in the 1700's. Some Munsee’s retreated to Canada, where they still live today. Others joined the Mohican tribe and ended up moving to Wisconsin together, where they are known as the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe. Still other Munsee’s joined their relatives the Lenin Lenape on their trails westward, and most of their descendents live in Oklahoma today.

Wikipedia Minsee

This is series of info from wikipedia, fill free to explore!

The Munsee are a subtribe of the Lenape, originally constituting one of the three great divisions of that tribe and dwelling along the upper portion of the Delaware River, the Minisink, and the adjacent country in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. From their principal totem they were frequently called the Wolf tribe of the Lenape. They were considered the most warlike portion of the tribe and assumed the leadership in war councils. They were prominent in the early history of New York and New Jersey, being among the first tribes of that region to meet the European immigrants.

In 1663 they aided the Esopus tribe in attacking the Dutch, and were chastised by Martin Cregier (see Esopus Wars). They claimed all the land from the Minisink to the Hudson River, the head waters of the Delaware River and the Susquehanna River, and south to the Lehigh River and Conewago Creek. By a noted fraudulent treaty known as the Walking Purchase, the main body of the Munsee was forced to move from the Delaware River about the year 1740. They settled on the Susquehanna, on lands assigned them by the Iroquois, but soon afterwards moved westward and joined the main Lenape tribe on the Ohio River, with whom the greater portion eventually became incorporated. A considerable body, the Christian Munsee, who were converted by the Moravian missionaries, drew off from the rest and formed a separate organization, most of them moving to Canada during the American Revolution. Others joined Ojibwa and Stockbridge people in Wisconsin. The majority were incorporated in the Lenape, with whom they participated in their subsequent wars and removals.

Those who kept the name of Munsee were in three bands in the early 20th century, two of which consolidated with other tribal fragments, so that no separate census is available. These tribes were the Munsee of the Thames, Ontario, Canada, 120; Munsee (or Christian), and Chippewa, northeastern Kansas, 90; and Stockbridge and Munsee, Green Bay Agency, Wisconsin, 530. The mixed band in Kansas dissolved its tribal relations.

Links

For more visit the links:

http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsee_people

http://www.bigorrin.org/munsee_kids.htm

http://www.800poconos.com/about-poconos/seasons/#spring

(They were forced west)