Dutch and Indigenous Communities in Seventeenth-Century Northeastern North America: What Archaeology, History, and Indigenous Oral Traditions Teach Us about Their Intercultural Relationships

344 Pages·2021·13.366 MB·English

by  Lucianne Lavin

DUTCH AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA

DUTCH AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA
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What Archaeology, History, and Indigenous Oral Traditions
Teach Us about Their Intercultural Relationships
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Edited by
Lucianne Lavin
Cover Image: L. F. Tantillo. Curiosity of the Magua. Mohawk warriors approach the
ship of Arent Van Curler, 1650. Oil on canvas. 26" x 38". © L. F. Tantillo
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lavin, Lucianne, editor.
Title: Dutch and indigenous communities in seventeenth-century northeastern
North America : what archaeology, history, and indigenous oral traditions teach
us about their intercultural relationships / Lucianne Lavin.
Description: Albany : State University of New York, [2021] | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020048642 (print) | LCCN 2020048643 (ebook) | ISBN
9781438483177 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438483184 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: New Netherland—History. | Indians of North America—Northeastern
States—History—17th century. | Indians of North America—Northeastern States—
Government relations. | Dutch—New York (State)—History—17th century. |
Dutch—New England—History—17th century. | Excavations (Archaeology)—
Northeastern States. | Ethnohistory—Northeastern States.
Classification: LCC F122.1 .D87 2021 (print) | LCC F122.1 (ebook) | DDC
974/.02—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048642
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048643
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This book is dedicated to the Institute for
American Indian Studies Museum and Research Center
(Washington, Connecticut) and its staff, whose strong ethic
of research and public education initiated, encouraged,
and affected its production.

Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
Lucianne Lavin
Chapter 1
Henry Hudson Goes Ashore on Castle Hill 9
Shirley W. Dunn
Chapter 2
Sources Relating to Dutch-Indian Relations 17
Charles T. Gehring
Chapter 3
Declarations of Interdependence: The Nature of Native–Dutch
Relations in New Netherland, 1624–1664 43
Stephen T. Staggs
Chapter 4
Building Forts and Alliances: Archaeology at Freeman and
Massapeag, Two Native American Sites 79
Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall
Chapter 5
Mohawk and Dutch Relations in the Mohawk Valley: Alliance,
Diplomacy, and Families from 1600 to the Two Row Treaty
Renewal Campaign 105
Paul Gorgen
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Chapter 6
The Dutch and the Wiechquaeskeck: Shifting Alliances in the
Seventeenth Century 129
Marshall Joseph Becker
Chapter 7
Early Seventeenth-Century Trade in Southern New England 171
Kevin A. McBride
Chapter 8
Roduins: A Dutch Fort in Branford, Connecticut 215
John Pfeiffer
Chapter 9
The Fresh River and the New Netherland Settlement: “House of
Good Hope” 243
Richard Manack
Chapter 10
Dutch–Native American Relationships in Eastern New Netherland
(That’s Connecticut, Folks!) 263
Lucianne Lavin
Bibliography 287
Contributors 313
Index 317
Abbreviations
ASG Archive of the States-General (in NA).
DRCHNY John Brodhead, Edmund O’Callaghan, and Berthold Fernow,
ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of
New York, 15 vols. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company,
1853–83.
FOCM Charles T. Gehring, trans. and ed., Fort Orange Court Minutes,
1652–1660. Syracuse, NY: New Netherland Document Series,
vol. 16, part 2, 1990.
HNAI Bruce Trigger, ed., Handbook of North American Indians, vol.
15, Northeast. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.
JMOC Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna, trans. and ed., A
Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634–1635: The
Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert. Syracuse, NY:
Syracuse University Press, 1988.
NNN John Franklin Jameson, ed., Narratives of New Netherland,
1609–1664. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909.
NYCM New York Colonial Manuscripts (in NYSA).
NYHM Arnold J. F. van Laer, trans. and ed., Register of the Provincial
Secretary, 1638–1642. New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch,
vol. 1. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1974.
Arnold J. F. van Laer, trans. and ed., Register of the Provincial
Secretary, 1642–1647. New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch,
vol. 2. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1974.
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