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

Lucianne Lavin’s innovative volume of essays seeks to recenter early American history by excavating the rarely told impact of the Dutch in North America. Contributors to the volume use history and historical archaeological methods to flesh out Dutch primacy in European settlement of the northeastern territory they called New Netherland. Each chapter underscores that the Dutch established trade partnerships with northeastern Native American groups long before the English. Contributing historians and archaeologists insist that we view early American history not through an Anglocentric lens but rather through the interconnectedness of an array of ethnicities. These include the English, the Dutch, and the many Native groups whom Europeans came into conflict with but also depended on to survive in this new land. Early chapters acquaint readers with historical figures starting with Henry Hudson. Hudson voyaged in 1609 from today’s New York Harbor up what the Mohicans called River of the Mountains...