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The story of the Lenape, the native people of New York Harbor region and their experiences with the first European arrivals \u2014 the explorers, the fur traders, the residents of New Amsterdam.\n\nBefore New York, before New Amsterdam \u2014 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.\n\nThis is the story of their first contact with European explorers and settlers and their gradual banishment from their ancestral land.\n\nFur 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.\n\nWith the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, the Lenape entered into various land deals, \u201cselling" the land of Manhattan at a location in the area of today\u2019s Inwood Hill Park.\n\nBut 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.\n\nPeter 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.\n\nAnd 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.\n\nVisit our website for more images illustrating the events from this week's show:\n\nboweryboyshistory.com\n\nThis episode was originally released in June 2016.\xa0\n\nSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys