Talk:Peter Minuit
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[edit] Years (Dates)
Several of the dates are or were presented in the article as two years, and it reads like either/or. The dates themselves are not ambiguous, but this is the result of interpretning older text that reflected the fafct that they changed year on a different calander, as is explaned at Old Style and New Style dates. I am altering the article to only present years based on our current calendar. Another method might be to present them as 1632/3, but then this article would also need to repeat the date explanation. We ought to have a clear, short biography here. Lou I 14:29, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
- Please don't do things like that: it sacrifices accuracy for simplicity. Now we'll have to look through and undo it. - Nunh-huh 01:41, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 60 guilders for Long Island
I have heard, and hope that someone else can verify this, that the tribe he bought Long Island from didn't actually have any claim to it--they were laughing at the stupid white guys, while the Dutch were congratulating themselves for their bargaining skill. I thought I had read this in "Lies My Teacher Told Me," but I could very well be wrong. It also sounds a bit like the selling the Brooklyn Bridge scam, so it could just be a continuation of this story, or wishful thinking. I like it, though; it's a good follow-up to the story, anyway. Has anyone else heard this one?
Yes I read that, and it makes a good story. Don't spoil it if you discover that it didn't happen. By the way, it was the Canarse Indians (native Americans?) not the Algonquin. So I changed Algonquin to Canarse. The Canarse were exterminated by the Mohawk after the Canarse refused to pay tribute to the Mohawk. Greensburger 18:25, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
peice of dumb shit
[edit] technically speaking
Technically speaking the Minuits were not Walloons but from Tournasis. However the term "Walloon" was often used at that time to mean persecuted French speaking Protestant from the Low countries, and later with the Hughenots who often fled through Wallonia to reach the Netherlands and possibly America. Nowdays it is also refering to the whole set of French speaker in Belgium, although technically speaking they just are under the Walloon Region but remain different groups. The Tournaisis being out of technical Wallonia but part of the Region.
