Have you ever wondered how William Kieft and the French interacted with the native americans. William Kieft interacted with the native americans much differently than the French.William Kieft felt that the new land should be his and he thought that the native americans were savages. The French saw that the native americans could make really good allies so they made allies with the native americans. The French were a lot more respectful towards the native americans and William Kieft did not like the native americans or as he called them the “savages.”

How did the way that William Kieft treated the Native Americans differ from the way the French treated the Native Americans. William Kieft hated the Native Americans he hated them so much that he attacked them while they were sleeping. “Nothing but firing. and heard the shrieks of savages murdered in their sleep.”(paragraph 6) William Kieft attacked the Native American camp while they were sleeping and David De Vires one of the soldiers that was working for William attacked the Natives at night and he did not inform De Vires. De Vires woke up to the sounds of gunshots and the screams of the savages, …show more content…
The French relations with the Natives at Pays d'en Haut were much different than any other French native relations. The French embraced the Native American culture and a French trader might even had married a chief's daughter. “A French trader might marry a chief's daughter or, if the tribe had a female leader, the Frenchman would marry the chief herself.”(paragraph 4) If a Frenchman were to marry a female tribe leader he can gain access to trading routes and they could maybe even get some