Cygnes River near the town of Ottawa. Signing the treaty for the Munsee were Henry Donohoe, Ignatius Caleb, and John Williams. Although the two tribes shared a reservation and were considered one tribe by the United States government in all dealings, they maintained their separate identities in cultural and religious practices. The Moravian church continued to send missionaries to the Munsee. Under the Dawes Act, the Chippewa-Christian Indian Reservation, as it was known in the 1859 treaty, was allotted to the individual members and descendants of the tribes in separate 160-acre plots. The people eventually accepted assimilation. In 1900, the final disbursement of federal funds was paid, and all benefits and official recognition as Native Americans were dissolved. A number of the Christian Munsee Tribe in Kansas live on the reservation in Ottawa, Kansas where they cling to their Christian faith and Lenape heritage. Notable members of the Christian Munsee tribe The Christian Munsee tribe has produced several people who have become notable figures in both Christianity and the Delaware Nation as a whole: Gelelemend, Lenape chief of the Turtle clan John Henry Kilbuck, Moravian Christian missionary to the Native peoples in Alaska Papunhank, a Moravian Christian Lenape diplomat and preacher Glikhikan, Munsee chief, Moravian Christian elder, and Moravian Christian martyr 96 Moravian Christian Indian Martyrs, who practiced nonresistance as they were murdered in the Gnadenhutten massacre on 8 March 1782 Washington Jacobs, chief of the Moravian of the Thames reservation. See also Praying Indians Mission Indians Indian Reductions References Census of the Chippewa and Christian Indians, June 30, 1893. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives Building. External links Christian Munsee Tribe in Kansas Delaware Nation at Moraviantown "A Fragment of Kansas Land History: The Disposal of the Christian Indian Tract" from the Kansas Historical Quarterly. Treaty with the Chippewa, Etc., 1859 Chippewa-Munsee Genealogy Native American Christianity Great Lakes tribes Native American tribes in New Jersey Franklin County, Kansas Wyandotte County, Kansas Shawano County, Wisconsin First Nations in Ontario Lenape History of the America (North) Province of the Moravian Church Assimilation of indigenous peoples of North America