Posted on 11/28/2009 9:49:24 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
NEW YORK — Members of one of America's oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday — for the first time — for massacring and displacing Native Americans 400 years ago.
"We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people and disregarded your culture, along with your dreams, hopes and great love for this land," the Rev. Robert Chase told descendants from both sides. "With pain, we the Collegiate Church, remember our part in these events."
The minister spoke on Native American Heritage Day at a reconciliation ceremony of the Lenape tribe with the Collegiate Church, started in 1628 in then-New Amsterdam as the Reformed Dutch Church.
The rite was held in front of the Museum of the American Indian in lower Manhattan, where Dutch colonizers had built their fort near an Indian trail now called Broadway, near Wall Street.
The Collegiate Church was considered the "conscience" of the new colony, whose merchants quickly developed commerce with the world in fur and grains — till then the turf of the natives.
Surrounded by Lenape Indians, the Dutch colonists "were hacking men, women and children to death," said Ronald Holloway, the chairman of the Sand Hill band of Lenapes, who lived here before Henry Hudson landed 400 years ago.
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If members of this church murdered Indians I hardly think they should get away with just an apology. Shouldn’t they go to jail?
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I am sure the Lenape Indians were using the Ghandi method and sitting still and waiting for the abuse to get over. They, as perfect human beings did no hacking, killing or destroying to the Dutch.
Why?
I didn’t kill any Injuns and I can’t answer for what my great grand pappy may have done.
Obviously, they were noble savages.
Should we go ahead and apologize to the American Indians for not paying the proper market rate when the Dutch bought Manhattan Island for $24 worth of trinkets???
Umm, enough with the stupid white guilt. The indigenous people always get the shaft when a modern culture moves in, especially when they bring along all their happy diseases. For every person they may or may not have killed, they likely killed another hundred simply by bringing the illnesses of Europe to the region.
There. The truth, the bugs did it. Now instead of dreaming up new ways to demean everyone, especially those Lenape who shockingly have survived with tribal identity intact, how about spending the time educating the children so that the last remnants of the diseases brought along can finally be put to rest? Seems far more productive, and far more understandable than a meaningless apology for events that took place nearly half a millennium ago.
It was a war over territory as most wars are.
We won, you lost, get over it.
Yea. “WE” raped and murder and robbed you. Sorry.
Even the vaunted Iroquois had cannibalism in their culture. Who thinks that shouldn’t have been ended?
I agree. I just don’t get this whole thing. Are they feeling guilty about what someone did 400 years ago? They need to find something to do with the rest of their lives. It’s sad what happened, on both sides, but you can’t hold others accountable 400 years later.
Just wondering Rev. Chase . . . was there any GOOD that came out of this? You know things like REAL healthcare, education, a halt to warring tribes . . ?
Obambi must have convinced these people to say this during their big meeting of phony ideas.
Does anyone doubt that they were savages that started massacres very early?
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An Historical Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting
of The Village Library Company of Farmington, Connecticut
September 8, 1897
by Julius Gay
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Village Library Company of Farmington:
I propose this evening to give some account of Farmington soldiers in the wars preceding the Revolution, while the colony was still under the crown In so doing I shall consider the men of this village only, leaving out of sight the vastly, more numerous residents of the ancient town, which once extended from Simsbury on the north to Cheshire on the south, and from Wethersfield westward to what is now the town of Plymouth.
The first serious conflict in which the settlers of Connecticut were engaged was the Pequot War. This occurred before our village had any existence, but several of the men who afterward settled Farmington, and who here lived and died, were in the fight. That we may realize the necessity and the justifiableness of the war, let us briefly recall the situation. In the river towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield were only about 250 adult men, and in the fort at Saybrook twenty more, under the command of Lion Gardiner. In the southeastern corner of the colony was the powerful tribe of the Pequots, under their sachem, Sassacus; further east the Narragansetts, under Miantonimo; and to the north the Mohegans, under the friendly Uncas; while to the west were the dreaded Mohawks. An attempt by the Pequots to unite all the tribes and wipe out the whites at one blow failed. The Narragansetts hated the Pequots more fiercely than they did the Englishmen, and Uncas was always the friend of the whites.
In 1633 two traders of Virginia, Stone and Norton, with six other men, were murdered in their vessel as they were sailing up the river to the Dutch fort at Hartford. Three years later occurred the murder of John Oldham at Block Island, and the ill-advised attempt of Endicott from the Bay Colony to chastise without destroying the offenders called out the indignant protest of Gardiner: “You come hither to raise these wasps about my ears, and then you take wing and flee away.” After the killing and torture of numerous men at Saybrook, and the roasting alive of a Wethersfield man, the savages proceeded to the latter place, killed seven men, a woman and child, and carried away two girls.
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