Date of Award
Spring 2005
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Abstract
From the earliest interactions between the Dutch and native groups in the New World, cultural differences regarding the ideas of property and governmental jurisdiction created societal conflict. When native tribes in the vicinity of New Netherland began to consolidate into traditional political alliances based on tribute and protection during the mid-1630s, thereby undercutting theoretical European dominance in New Netherland and New England, the English and Dutch both aggressively used the native system by forcing tributary status on local tribes through armed conflict, ritualized violence, and the use of tribal extermination as symbols of power. For the Dutch, this movement was known as Kieft's War.
Recommended Citation
Klaiber, Nicholas, "Kieft's War and tributary politics in eastern woodland colonial society" (2005). Honors Theses. 420.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/420