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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'll be damned - There really was a Bowling Green Massacre
New Amsterdam 1660
The Bowling Green massacre did happen in 1643, white settlers slaughtered 110 natives
"Back then, New York City was known as New Amsterdam and was a struggling colonial outpost under Dutch rule. As Theresa Braine of Indian Country Today recounted, the then-governor of New Netherlands, Willem Kieft, sent groups of European soldiers to an area at the tip of Manhattan island, which was then home to Lenape tribe. The soldiers killed 80 members of the tribe in what is now Pavonia, New Jersey, and massacred another 30 in Manhattan"
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I'll be damned - There really was a Bowling Green Massacre (Original Post)
packman
Feb 2017
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Orrex
(63,220 posts)1. Lousy immigrants
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)2. Inddeed....nt
0rganism
(23,965 posts)5. refusing to assimilate
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)3. Terrorist then proceed ,,,,
to kill 10 million Amer Indians with their diseases like mumps , measles , etc,,,,,,,,,,, and the media refused to cover it
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)6. And where was the New Amsterdam Times?
Probably pushing fake news...
marybourg
(12,634 posts)7. And it obviously was reported on,
or we wouldn't know about it now.
Crunchy Frog
(26,613 posts)8. So immigrants did come into this country and kill Americans.
We should start commemorating that.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)9. I see the original Wall street ...
was meant to keep the natives out. The irony.