Haudenosaunee and The English
New - Netherlands and the Haudenosaunee
- dutch traders arrive 1614
- trade alliance with Mohawks (part of Haudenosaunee)
- cheaper, better goods, more guns
- Haudenosaunee power grows
- contested borderland between french/huron and dutch/haudenosaunee alliances
- escalating war between long time native enemies
- trade, disease, guns, and access to global markets transform Native conflicts
Haudenosaunee Mourning Wars, 1648-50
- haudenosaunee mourning wars waged to take captives to replace lost kin
- 1600s, heavy haudenosaunee losses to diseases
- launch massive series of mourning wars against Huron and others, 1648-50
- haudenosaunee territory expands; rival groups displaced or absorbed
The English: Fashionably Late
- social and political turmoil in 16th century
- protestant reformation
- population boom
- “enclosure of land”
- private estates replace shared-use feudal system
- displaced peasants flood cities
- low wages, high land prices, widespread poverty
- new merchant class eager to start colonizing
- the “west country men” leading promoters
- mercantile capitalism emerges
- private colonial ventures backed by the crown
- joint stock companies: share risks among many investors with Crown backing
- false-starts through late 1500s
- peace with spain 1604 widens opportunities