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Senay Boztas in Amsterdam

Manahahtáanung or Manhattan? Tribal representatives call for apology for Dutch settlement of New York

A moel ship is examined by people in a museum
The Collectiecentrum Amsterdam Museum on 30 October 2023. Photograph: Courtesy of Amsterdam Museum

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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