That conclusion was based upon information less perfect than that

which has since been obtained, and not only so but is in

conflict with the previous There was findings of that author. in their action inconsistent the with understood nothing clearly powers of chieftaincies ; but much that implies obligation to

national authority.

The entire peninsula south of the Highlands

was under the sovereignty of the Wappingers, as a tribal division of the Mahicans, and the offenses of the Dutch were resented

by the nation and the tribe.

ment of the chief of the

As early as 1622, the imprison

Sequins aroused the Mahicans to that

extent that the offending agent of the Dutch was compelled to leave the country; in the' war of 1643, the Dutch were sur to

prised

fine!

their

boats attacked above the Highlands,

by

Indians with whom they were ignorant of ever having had any appear to have been from the statements of Gov, Moore and others pending the

Hubbard's Indian Wars^ 94, 98, 188 ; Colonial History, jv, 902, etc. ;

time of the discovery they were a powerful

Brodheatfs New York, 11, 294. The Indians began to have a value in the hands of the French as well as the To both parties they were the English.

Schoolcraffs Ind. Nat., v, 222, etc.

most effective soldiers that could be proefforts

to

secure

their

removal to the

Hudson river after their disastrous defeat in the war under King Philip. At the tribe.

THE INDIAN TRIBES