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The Dutch were confronted with a new phenomenon, Native American raids, since the local tribes had now realized that the Dutch were not simply visitors but people set to settle their land. [ 13 ] The Dutch realized that they had gone with the wrong approach as they offered great privileges to wealthy, not poor, citizens.
Today the majority of the Dutch Americans live in the U.S. states of California, New York, Michigan, Iowa, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. This is a list of notable Dutch Americans , including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and Americans of full or partial Dutch ancestry.
Very few Dutch people settled the Caribbean during colonial times, although there are sizable minorities of Dutch people on the islands today with most being recent arrivals and immigrants. There is also significant Dutch heritage within the majority multiracial population of Aruba , often in combination with Amerindian and African ancestry.
West Michigan in particular has become associated with Dutch American culture and the influence of the Reformed Church in America and Christian Reformed Church in North America (both offshoots of the Dutch Reformed Church), centering on the cities of Holland [1] and (to a lesser extent) Grand Rapids. Dutch is still spoken by the elderly and ...
An increasing number of people ignored the ancestry question or chose no specific ancestral group such as "American or United States". In the 2000 census this represented over 56.1 million or 19.9% of the United States population, an increase from 26.2 million (10.5%) in 1990 and 38.2 million (16.9%) in 1980 and are specified as "unclassified ...
Puerto Rican people of Dutch descent (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "American people of Dutch descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,210 total.
North American people of Dutch descent (8 C) D. Dutch diaspora in Canada (4 C, 3 P) ... Dutch diaspora in the United States (3 C, 1 P) This page was ...
Dutch America (in Dutch: Nederlands Amerika), is the combination of territories, countries or even communities that are dutch speaking in the Americas, in contrast to ...