Manahahtáanung or Manhattan? Tribal representatives call for apology for Dutch settlement of New York City
by Senay Boztas in Amsterdam from US news | The Guardian on (#6MTTN)
As new exhibition opens in Amsterdam exploring the settlement of North America, original Manhattanites demand apology
Representatives for some of the Lenape people have called for an apology and reparations for the 17th-century Dutch settling" of New Amsterdam, the place that is now New York.
Precisely four centuries after the Dutch established a colony at the mouth of the Hudson River, some descendants of Indigenous Americans believe it is time for a fuller story of the wars on their people, slavery, exploitation and dispersal.
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