henry hudson was the captain in september of 1609 when the half moon sailed past manahata island and continued upriver the river was named by the indians hudson contacted mahikintop the name meant ever flowing large water henry hudson was an englishman employed by the duchess india company he was trying to find a shorter water route to the orient and its spices during their one month journey hudson's crew encountered leni lanapi mahekin and mohawk people some offered corn beans grapes apples oysters beaver and otter pelts wampum strings and tobacco that dutch gave in exchange mere trinkets and a few knives and hatchets but because of the killing of a single crew member suspicious dutch and english sailors over a one-month period shot or maimed more than 12 indians it was the desire of the dutch to establish trading posts along the river in 1613 the dutch and mohawk made a treaty for peaceful relations that agreement is signified by a whopping bill known as the two roads [Music] so one of the things that the that the native americans the hardino show me how they communicated to each other was by symbols what they had seen around them in nature what the creator had provided them so what they said was so they says that there's uh two vessels in this river and they're both traveling down the oindus home down into the future so they says uh that in one vessel the white man is carrying himself and his language and his culture and his laws and in the hadino shoni they have the canoe and inside their canoe they also have their language their culture and their way of life so they says that uh to both co-exist on the same land and in the same world they have to travel along this road and promise never to intervene they'll always remain parallel this is the two-row wampum these two rows are made from the purple from this shell this white comes from this shell here this row represents your people in their ship as you travel through life this role represents the native people as in our canoe as we travel through life this represents peace friendship forever as long as we respect the rights of each other they never come together because this is when we first had come to the idea of material culture we didn't really know what material culture really was or monetary value because what the white man was saying was that the more furs we brought the more trinkets and the more muskets that we could have so that was kind of like the first our first introduction into the monetary system or as we say in the language so some of the things that we hear of the of the older people talking about that they were interested in were these furs from the forest of the animals that run around because they uh because they could make many things with them many luxury items spaniards back across the ocean but we were also there with them hunting these things hunting the animals down turtle clean so sadova nigasa my family the bert clan oh yeah yeah okay coraliere van curler corlier van kerler hourly air collier [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] then [Music] [Laughter] so those are the three things that they agreed upon [Music] they're growing all the growing grasses and yeah and as long as the sun shines as he walks in his direction so these are the three things as uh they said that's how long the matter shall last this uh this agreement [Music] so there's two boats traveling down these two to these two roads and they're both going only in one direction they hold on so one of the things that they that the europeans said was uh was that they they said he east he says you indians will be our children and we'll look out after you but then they live [Music] don't have to agree he said no we don't think that's possible [Music] but it says uh he says the creator had created us all equal all man being is equal so we must stand as high as you so what we will see when we will think about it we will see all of us our brothers [Music] [Music] so you