Willem Kieft smoking Peace Pipe with Algonquian Chief after Wappinger War 1645

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William Cullen Bryant and Sydney Howard Gay

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1645. Director-General Willem Kieft smoking a peace pipe (calumet) with an Algonquian chief at New Amsterdam, 30 August 1645, following the end of the Wappinger War (aka Kiefts War). The conflict between the Dutch colonists and Native American tribes (Algonquian, Wappinger, Lenape, Mohican, Raritan) lasted from February 23, 1643 until August 1645. The image is based on a 19th century wood engraving.

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Encyclopædia Britannica - https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Wappinger/353908 . From A Popular History of the United States by William Cullen Bryant and Sydney Howard Gay, volume I; Scribner, Armstrong, and Company (New York, 1876)

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