16 Facts About Dutch Americans

Dutch Americans are Americans of Dutch descent whose ancestors came from the Netherlands in the recent or distant past.

In 1629, Dutch Americans officials tried to expand the northern colony through a plan that promised "Liberties and Exemptions" to anyone who would ship fifty colonists to America at his own expense.

The Dutch Americans were confronted with a new phenomenon, Native American raids, since the local tribes had now realized that the Dutch Americans were not simply visitors but people set to settle their land.

Dutch Americans realized that they had gone with the wrong approach as they offered great privileges to wealthy, not poor, citizens.

The Dutch Americans state issued a proclamation, which stated that "all mechanics and farmers who can prove their ability to earn a living here shall receive free passage for themselves, their wives and children".

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The Dutch Americans briefly recaptured the colony in 1673, but during peace talks with the English, they decided to trade it in 1674 for Suriname in South America, which was more profitable.

The major Dutch Americans cities were centers of high culture, but they still sent immigrants.

The Dutch Americans brought along their own folklore, most famously Sinterklaas and created their own as in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Dutch Americans Quakers came to the Philadelphia area in response to the appeal of William Penn.

Penn, himself a Dutch Americans Briton, had paid three visits to the Netherlands, where he published several pamphlets.

Dutch Americans is still spoken by the elderly and their children in Western Michigan.

Little Chute, Wisconsin, remained a Dutch Americans-speaking community—known locally as "speaking Hollander"—into the twentieth century.

Dutch newspapers continued in the area—mainly in De Pere by Catholic clergymen—were published up until World War I The only remaining publication that is written exclusively in Dutch is Maandblad de Krant, which is published monthly in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, and mailed to subscribers throughout the United States from Oroville, Washington.

The Portland Dutch Americans Society started this annual Dutch Americans Holiday celebration in Portland, OR in 2013 and will have one again in 2015 on April 26.

Between 1820 and 1900, 340, 000 Dutch Americans emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States of America.

Not included among Dutch Americans are the Pennsylvania Dutch, a group of German Americans who settled in Pennsylvania in the colonial era and whose name is a corruption of the word "Deutsch", meaning "German".