s necessary to support the booming market, so the Dutch West India Company began looking towards other tribes to support their efforts, specifically their former enemies, the Iroquois. The Iroquois soon overshadowed the Mahicans in supplying furs, and thus became a major power in the northeast.The Dutch West India Company had begun to recruit settlers to help build an agricultural society. According to Nash, the population doubled between 1638 and 1643 from one to two thousand. Needing more land the settlers began purchasing land from the natives, and so it came to be that the two agricultural groups lived side by side, which caused tension between the two groups. To finance the growing colony, the Dutch began taxing the Indians. This did not suit the Indians and tensions mounted. The Dutch did not wait long to instill military force upon the Indians once the Indians began to question the Dutch authority. They began invading Indian villages and killing innocent victims. They insisted that the natives within the New Amsterdam area pay tribute to and recognize Dutch authority, With settling land now the main concern instead of trade, the Indians were only mere obstacles to the Dutch.On the contrary, relations between the Indians and Dutch at Albany were respectful and peaceful. Peace was maintained because both sides had everything to lose and nothing to gain by hostilities... Both sides saw each other as mutually beneficial to each others economy. This peace lasted all the was until 1664 where Richard Nicholas seized New Netherland. The French, like the Dutch, realized that the wealth and profit of North America lied in the trade of fish and fur. They settled towards the north, by the St. Lawrence River where there was no worry of interference by the English or Spanish. According to Nash, only two kinds of business existed in New France- the conversion of souls and the conversion of beaver. Both businesses could not exist if it were not ...
