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Before New York, before New Amsterdam \u2013 there was Lenapehoking, the land of the Lenape, the original inhabitants of the places we call Manhattan, Westchester, northern New Jersey and western Long Island.\xa0 This is the story of their first contact with European explorers and settlers and their gradual banishment from their ancestral land. Fur trading changed the lifestyles of the Lenape well before any permanent European settlers stepped foot in this region. Early explorers had a series of mostly positive experiences with early native people.\xa0 With the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, the Lenape entered into various land deals, \u2018selling\u2019 the land of Manhattan at a location in the area of today\u2019s Inwood Hill Park. But relations between New Amsterdam and the surrounding native population worsened with the arrival of Director-General William Kieft, leading to bloody attacks and vicious reprisals, killing hundreds of Lenape and colonists alike. Peter Stuyvesant arrives to salvage the situation, but further attacks threatened any treaties of peace.\xa0 But the time of English occupation, the Lenape were decimated and without their land. And yet, descendants of the Lenape live on today in various parts of the United States and Canada.\xa0 All that and more in this tragic but important tale of New York City history. \xa0 (My apologies for messing up\xa0the pronunciation of the word Wickquasgeck. And I was doing so well too! -- Greg) \xa0 www.boweryboyshistory.com\n\nSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys