David Moniac (December 25, 1802 – November 21, 1836) was a United States Army soldier of Muscogee descent.

He was the first Native American and first non-white graduate of any race from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1822.

Moniac resigned his commission in 1822 to manage his clan's property in Alabama, where he developed a cotton plantation.

[1] The Creek had a matrilineal kinship system, so Moniac was considered to be born into his mother's Wind Clan and gained his social status there.

The Moniac family lived in present-day Montgomery County, Alabama, near the unincorporated community of Pintlala.

Before starting there, Moniac studied with John McLeod, a tutor in Washington, D.C, to prepare for the entrance exam and classes.

[4] Moniac served for five months as a Brevet Second Lieutenant in the Sixth Infantry, but resigned his commission on December 31, 1822.

Fourteen years after he graduated from West Point, with the outbreak of the Second Seminole War in 1836, Moniac was called twice into service: he first served with the Alabama militia to suppress an uprising of displaced Creek.

That month, Territorial Governor Richard K. Call took a force of 2500 regular soldiers, Moniac and his Creek volunteers, and Tennessee and Florida militia from Ft. Drane, to the Wahoo Swamp on the Withlacoochee River.

The American dead from the battle were buried near those killed the previous December in 1835 at the nearby Dade's Massacre site, where the Seminole defeated U.S. Army forces.