Delaware Nation at Moraviantown
Moravian 47
Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiit | ||
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Municipality Chatham-Kent | | |
| First Nation | Delaware Nation at Moraviantown | |
| Area | ||
| • Land | 12.61 km2 (4.87 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011)[1] | ||
| • Total | 404 | |
| • Density | 32.0/km2 (83/sq mi) | |
| Website | delawarenation | |
Moravian 47 (
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
Amherstburg, Ontario, in 1792, Zeisberger obtained permission from the British colonial authorities for the community to inhabit a site on the Thames River
, near where it is located today.
During the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States, the Battle of the Thames took place near the community. The Shawnee leader Tecumseh, an ally of the United Kingdom, was killed by invading United States forces. Following the battle, before the US cavalry left the area, it burned the entire Christian Munsee community to the ground. They rebuilt on the south side of the Thames in their present location.[7]
In 1903, the Moravian Christians transferred the Christian Munsee mission in Moraviantown to
United Protestant denomination to which the Christian Munsee in Moraviantown belong to today.[8]
See also
- Delaware languages
- Munsee-Delaware Nation
- Munceytown
- Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation
References
- ^ 2011 Census of Population. Statistics Canada. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
- ^ Diary of David Zeisberger. R. Clarke & Company. 1885.
- ^ 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.
- ISBN 978-1-59884-926-4.
- ISBN 978-1-889037-41-7.
- ^ "The Moraviantown Delaware Nation". Lenape-Delaware History. Retrieved 2008-08-13.
- ^ Brock, Daniel J. (1983). "Zeisberger, David". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. V (1801–1820) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ISBN 978-0-7735-2843-7.
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