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Books by Kees-Jan Waterman
"Series: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors. Fully annotated and edited translation of anonymous a... more "Series: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors.
Fully annotated and edited translation of anonymous account book in Dutch, from the New York Public Library. Descriptive and analytical introduction, graphs, tables, index. Includes profiles of dozens of individual Native Americans (Munsees; Esopus and Wappinger). Images of sample pages from manuscript source.
Thousands of intercultural commercial transactions. Demonstrates considerable levels of participation by Native women.
Comparisons with data and analysis published earlier in 'To Do Justice To Him And Myself': Evert Wendell's Account Book of the Fur Trade with Indians in Albany, NY, 1695-1726 (Philadelphia, 2008).
[Kees-Jan Waterman, trans. and ed.] This translated Dutch account book of the fur trade with Indi... more [Kees-Jan Waterman, trans. and ed.] This translated Dutch account book of the fur trade with Indians yields essential data for understanding the workings of the intercultural fur trade in colonial North America. It contains accounts of hundreds of Indians, many listed with their own names, who purchased merchandise on credit from Evert Wendell (1681-1750) and his relatives in Albany, NY. Over 2,000 credit transactions and payments are recorded. An important addition to the literature on the fur trade which challenges widely held interpretations.
Data summarized in numerous tables.
Detailed index. 12 pp. with plates.
Also includes a CD-ROM with full transcription of the Dutch manuscript (searchable).
Articles by Kees-Jan Waterman
New York History, 94.1-2, Winter/Spring 2013, p.40-58 (online publication only)
Describes and analyses Indian women’s substantial participation in trade with two New York trader... more Describes and analyses Indian women’s substantial participation in trade with two New York traders, both of Dutch descent. Aggregated data from the traders’ ledgers provide documentary evidence supporting a fundamental update of the masculine persona the fur trader carries in both popular and the scholarly imagination. Certainly in colonial New York, fur transactions were part of the norm for people of both sexes.
Margriet Bruijn Lacy, Charles Gehring, Jenneke Oosterhoff (eds.), From De Halve Maen to KLM: 400 Years of Dutch-American Exchange [Studies in Dutch Language and Culture, vol. 2, Margriet Bruijn Lacy, (ed.)], pp. 135-148.
Hudson River Valley Review, 24:1 (Autumn, 2007), pp. 59-83.
Papers by Kees-Jan Waterman
The objective of this article is to establish whether close examination of a Dutch account book f... more The objective of this article is to establish whether close examination of a Dutch account book for the fur trade with Indians in colonial Albany, 1695-1726, yields useful data to assist us in reconstructing some parameters of the fur trade in New Netherland. From the account book a number of broad characteristics can be distilled that characterize the trade between Indians and two members of a family with strong New Netherland ancestry. The approach of this article is inspired by ethnohistorical studies that deploy a technique called "upstreaming": the researcher identifies a given set of circumstances and consults sources from progressively earlier times (goes "upstream") to examine if and to what degree such circumstances were recognizable in previous periods. In doing so, one may gain insights into the persistence or adaptations of the practices developed and deployed in the intercultural trade between colonists and Indians in New Netherland.
Teaching Documents by Kees-Jan Waterman
Reviews of My Work by Kees-Jan Waterman
with what might be termed a dichotomy of opportunity: during the Dutch and early English colonial... more with what might be termed a dichotomy of opportunity: during the Dutch and early English colonial periods, Indian tribes of the region were still relatively cohesive ethno-political entities, inhabiting their ancient villages and interacting with settlers and colonial governing authorities with a dynamic that reflected the vast cultural divide between the two peoples. These interactions were recorded in a voluminous array of official correspondence, military journals, court and council minutes and land papers. Upon translation, plus publication and/or cataloging in public archives, these records became treasure troves for the historian and ethno-historian. And what stories there were to tell! Dutch exploration and descriptions of earliest contact; pioneer European settlements surrounded by a stone-age population in transition, still occupying an uncharted interior wilderness; massacres, warfare and the capture of Christian women and children, some of whom spent months living with the Indians before their release.
Book Reviews by Kees-Jan Waterman
"Series: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors. Fully annotated and edited translation of anonymous a... more "Series: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors.
Fully annotated and edited translation of anonymous account book in Dutch, from the New York Public Library. Descriptive and analytical introduction, graphs, tables, index. Includes profiles of dozens of individual Native Americans (Munsees; Esopus and Wappinger). Images of sample pages from manuscript source.
Thousands of intercultural commercial transactions. Demonstrates considerable levels of participation by Native women.
Comparisons with data and analysis published earlier in 'To Do Justice To Him And Myself': Evert Wendell's Account Book of the Fur Trade with Indians in Albany, NY, 1695-1726 (Philadelphia, 2008).
[Kees-Jan Waterman, trans. and ed.] This translated Dutch account book of the fur trade with Indi... more [Kees-Jan Waterman, trans. and ed.] This translated Dutch account book of the fur trade with Indians yields essential data for understanding the workings of the intercultural fur trade in colonial North America. It contains accounts of hundreds of Indians, many listed with their own names, who purchased merchandise on credit from Evert Wendell (1681-1750) and his relatives in Albany, NY. Over 2,000 credit transactions and payments are recorded. An important addition to the literature on the fur trade which challenges widely held interpretations.
Data summarized in numerous tables.
Detailed index. 12 pp. with plates.
Also includes a CD-ROM with full transcription of the Dutch manuscript (searchable).
New York History, 94.1-2, Winter/Spring 2013, p.40-58 (online publication only)
Describes and analyses Indian women’s substantial participation in trade with two New York trader... more Describes and analyses Indian women’s substantial participation in trade with two New York traders, both of Dutch descent. Aggregated data from the traders’ ledgers provide documentary evidence supporting a fundamental update of the masculine persona the fur trader carries in both popular and the scholarly imagination. Certainly in colonial New York, fur transactions were part of the norm for people of both sexes.
Margriet Bruijn Lacy, Charles Gehring, Jenneke Oosterhoff (eds.), From De Halve Maen to KLM: 400 Years of Dutch-American Exchange [Studies in Dutch Language and Culture, vol. 2, Margriet Bruijn Lacy, (ed.)], pp. 135-148.
Hudson River Valley Review, 24:1 (Autumn, 2007), pp. 59-83.
The objective of this article is to establish whether close examination of a Dutch account book f... more The objective of this article is to establish whether close examination of a Dutch account book for the fur trade with Indians in colonial Albany, 1695-1726, yields useful data to assist us in reconstructing some parameters of the fur trade in New Netherland. From the account book a number of broad characteristics can be distilled that characterize the trade between Indians and two members of a family with strong New Netherland ancestry. The approach of this article is inspired by ethnohistorical studies that deploy a technique called "upstreaming": the researcher identifies a given set of circumstances and consults sources from progressively earlier times (goes "upstream") to examine if and to what degree such circumstances were recognizable in previous periods. In doing so, one may gain insights into the persistence or adaptations of the practices developed and deployed in the intercultural trade between colonists and Indians in New Netherland.
with what might be termed a dichotomy of opportunity: during the Dutch and early English colonial... more with what might be termed a dichotomy of opportunity: during the Dutch and early English colonial periods, Indian tribes of the region were still relatively cohesive ethno-political entities, inhabiting their ancient villages and interacting with settlers and colonial governing authorities with a dynamic that reflected the vast cultural divide between the two peoples. These interactions were recorded in a voluminous array of official correspondence, military journals, court and council minutes and land papers. Upon translation, plus publication and/or cataloging in public archives, these records became treasure troves for the historian and ethno-historian. And what stories there were to tell! Dutch exploration and descriptions of earliest contact; pioneer European settlements surrounded by a stone-age population in transition, still occupying an uncharted interior wilderness; massacres, warfare and the capture of Christian women and children, some of whom spent months living with the Indians before their release.