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Delaware Nation at Moraviantown: Moravian 47 (Munsee: Náahii, Literally 'Downstream') Is An

The document discusses the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown First Nation reserve located in Ontario, Canada. It details the history of the Christian Munsee people who were converted by Moravian missionaries and eventually settled in the area along the Thames River in the late 18th century. The reserve is currently home to over 400 members of the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown First Nation.

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The document discusses the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown First Nation reserve located in Ontario, Canada. It details the history of the Christian Munsee people who were converted by Moravian missionaries and eventually settled in the area along the Thames River in the late 18th century. The reserve is currently home to over 400 members of the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown First Nation.

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Coordinates: 42°34′N 81°53′W

Delaware Nation at Moraviantown


Moravian 47 (Munsee: Náahii, literally 'downstream') is an
Indian reserve located in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, with an Moravian 47
area of 13 square kilometres (5.0 sq mi). It is occupied by the
Indian reserve
Delaware Nation at Moraviantown First Nation, a part
of the Christian Munsee branch of the Lenape, and is Moravian Indian Reserve No. 47
commonly known as Moravian of the Thames reserve.
The resident registered population is 457, with another 587
band members living off the reserve.

A group of Munsee was converted to Christianity by


missionaries of the Moravian Church in Pennsylvania; these
persons and their descendants are known as the Christian
Munsee. They moved to Ohio Country, under pressure from
European settlers in the east. Vibrant Moravian Christian
Indian settlements were established in Schoenbrunn,
Gnadenhutten, Salem, Petquotting and Goshen.[2] After
many of those in Gnadenhutten and Salem were murdered by Moravian 47
American colonial militia in the Gnadenhutten massacre of
the Moravian Christian Indian Martyrs on 8 March 1782
during the American Revolutionary War, the remaining
Christian Munsee in Ohio gathered in Sandusky and led by
Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, departed towards the
Thames River.[3][4][5] They eventually reestablished their
Christian Indian community in what is today southern
Ontario.[6] At first temporarily settling near present-day
Amherstburg, Ontario, in 1792, Zeisberger obtained Show map of Municipality of
permission from the British colonial authorities for the Chatham-Kent
community to inhabit a site on the Thames River, near where Show map of Southern Ontario
it is located today. Show all
Coordinates: 42°34′N 81°53′W
During the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United Country  Canada
States, the Battle of the Thames took place near the Province  Ontario
community. The Shawnee leader Tecumseh, an ally of the Municipality Chatham-Kent
United Kingdom, was killed by invading United States forces. First Nation Delaware Nation at
Following the battle, before the US cavalry left the area, it Moraviantown
burned the entire Christian Munsee community to the
Area[1]
ground. They rebuilt on the south side of the Thames in their
 • Land 12.61 km2 (4.87 sq mi)
present location.[7]
Population (2011)[1]
In 1903, the Moravian Christians transferred the Christian  • Total 404
Munsee mission in Moraviantown to Methodist Christians, a  • Density 32.0/km2 (83/sq mi)
denomination that eventually joined the United Church of Website delawarenation.on.ca (h
Canada, the United Protestant denomination to which the ttp://delawarenation.on.
Christian Munsee in Moraviantown belong to today.[8] ca)

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See also
Delaware languages
Munsee-Delaware Nation
Munceytown
Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation

References
1. "Moravian 47 census profile" (http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/d
etails/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=3536029&Geo2=CD&Code2=3536&Data=Count&
SearchText=m&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=35&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=1). 2011 Census
of Population. Statistics Canada. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
2. Diary of David Zeisberger. R. Clarke & Company. 1885.
3. Wilcox, Frank N. (1933). Ohio Indian Trails (2 ed.). "The monument to the Moravian martyrs at
Gnadenhutten stands upon the site of the Indian town, now the modern cemetery. The small
mounds mark the graves of the victims whose bones were gathered by the faithful missionaries
some time after the massacre. At Goshen, a short distance up the Tuscarawas, is the grave of the
leader Zeisberger."
4. Mikaberidze, Alexander (25 June 2013). Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia
[2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-59884-926-4.
5. MacMinn, Edwin (2005). On the Frontier with Colonel Antes. Wennawoods Publishing. p. 75.
ISBN 978-1-889037-41-7.
6. "The Moraviantown Delaware Nation" (http://lenapedelawarehistory.net/mirror/delaware_tribes.ht
m). Lenape-Delaware History. Retrieved 2008-08-13.
7. Brock, Daniel J. (1983). "Zeisberger, David" (http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/zeisberger_david_5E.
html). In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. V (1801–1820)
(online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
8. St-Denis, Guy (2005). Tecumseh's Bones. McGill-Queen's Press. p. xvi. ISBN 978-0-7735-2843-
7.

External links
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