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Early Encounters in Native New York: Did Native People Really Sell 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.

Resource Information

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