Not all of them did. It depended on the tribes. I have ancestry that goes back to colonial America and I have ancestors that traded with Native Americas of the area. Didn’t rip them off either from what I can see. It was a fair deal – a set of ongoing compromises. It went down hill after 1664 but for a period of 34 years, it was a lot of back-and-forth compromises which allowed for a sharing of a land on Indian terms rather than outright ownership on European terms. The image is: “Cornelius Melyn Trades with the Indians” He’s my 11th great grandfather. “Living by a commercial ethic and resisting English encroachment from New England, the Dutch made at least 40 land purchases by written deed from their Indian neighbors from 1630 to 1664. In the past, scholars have seen only a European instrument of dispossession in the so-called “Indian deeds” that document land transfers from Indians to Europeans. In fact, they are colonial phenomena with uniquely Indian qualities. This is particularly true of the Dutch-Indian deeds signed or marked between 1630 and 1664. The Dutch-Indian deeds of the seventeenth century exhibit a middle ground of land tenures, in which the Dutch were compelled to yield to aspects of Indian land tenure and law in order to successfully purchase the land and retain it without facing retaliation. Indians, for their part, partook in the sale rituals of the literate world—deed-signing—but resisted European notions of land deals as fixed, permanent agreements. The Dutch-Indian deeds thus emerge as fluid agreements that were a compromise between Dutch and Indian land tenures and legal conventions “

Not all of them did. It depended on the tribes.
I have ancestry that goes back to colonial America and I have ancestors that traded with Native Americas of the area. Didn’t rip them off either from what I can see. It was a fair deal – a set of ongoing compromises. It went down hill after 1664 but for a period of 34 years, it was a lot of back-and-forth compromises which allowed for a sharing of a land on Indian terms rather than outright ownership on European terms.
The image is: “Cornelius Melyn Trades with the Indians”
He’s my 11th great grandfather.
“Living by a commercial ethic and resisting English encroachment from New England, the Dutch made at least 40 land purchases by written deed from their Indian neighbors from 1630 to 1664. In the past, scholars have seen only a European instrument of dispossession in the so-called “Indian deeds” that document land transfers from Indians to Europeans. In fact, they are colonial phenomena with uniquely Indian qualities. This is particularly true of the Dutch-Indian deeds signed or marked between 1630 and 1664. The Dutch-Indian deeds of the seventeenth century exhibit a middle ground of land tenures, in which the Dutch were compelled to yield to aspects of Indian land tenure and law in order to successfully purchase the land and retain it without facing retaliation. Indians, for their part, partook in the sale rituals of the literate world—deed-signing—but resisted European notions of land deals as fixed, permanent agreements. The Dutch-Indian deeds thus emerge as fluid agreements that were a compromise between Dutch and Indian land tenures and legal conventions “
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