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This is what the Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians encountered, an untouched forested wilderness sprinkled with Delaware villages along the only trail and major waterway. From the 1932 map entitled Indiana The influence of the Indian upon its History-with Indian and French names for Natural and Cultural Locations, #122, published by the Indiana Department of Conservation, the White River area of Madison County is shown as a well-developed part of the larger Delaware society in east-central Indiana. The Delaware or Lenni-Lenape, meaning “real men” had as many as fourteen villages along this west fork of the White River. Munceetown was a nickname given in the late 1700's to one of several small Indian villages, located along the East Fork of the White River, in eastern Indiana, and precisely located near the present-day Walnut Street Bridge in Muncie, that were dominated by Delaware (Lenni Lenepe) Indians.
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