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Relationship Between the Felt Hat and Manhattan

This online lesson provides Native perspectives, images, documents, and other sources to help students and teachers understand how the 17th century fur trade brought together two cultures, one Native and the other Dutch, with different values and ideas about exchange. Examine these differences to determine whether the exchange that took place on Manhattan in 1626 was really a land sale or not. Este recurso también está disponible en español.

Resource Information

grades   4 5
featured nations
Lenape, Mahican, Shinnecock, Unkechaug, Delaware
subjects
History, Social Studies, Geography, Economics
regions
North America, Northeastern Atlantic coast