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- Title
Revisiting the Fake Tawagonshi Treaty of 1613.
- Authors
Gehring, Charles T.; Starna, William A.
- Abstract
The article discusses the so-called 1613 Tawagonshi treaty between Dutch colonists and the Haudenosaunee Indians, or five-nations Iroquois, of New York State. The authors present the reasons why they consider the treaty, published by physician L.G. van Loon in 1968, to be a fake, including linguistic and orthographic anomalies and historical errors. They consider resistance to their position from individuals including historian Jon Parmenter and Saugerties, New York resident Vernon Benjamin. Events planned to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the treaty are also considered.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); IROQUOIS treaties; FORGERY of manuscripts; VAN Loon, L. G.; HISTORICAL controversies; PARMENTER, Jon; BENJAMIN, Vernon; NATIVE Americans; DUTCH people; COLONIAL New York, ca. 1600-1775
- Publication
New York History, 2012, Vol 93, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
0146-437X
- Publication type
Article