Which European power exploited Native Americans to purchase a valuable island in exchange for "a few toys"?

The Dutch were said to have purchased Long Island for "a few toys."

In 1626 a Dutchman named Peter Minuit purchased land in Long Island on behalf of the Dutch West India Company from the Canarsees native people.

It is said that Minuit purchased this land with objects such as:

While many believe that the Dutch exploited the natives, the accounts of how this trade occurred vary and so cannot be conclusively proven. Some research actually concluded that the natives agreed to the sale because they really wanted what the Dutch had which meant that they were not exploited.

In conclusion, whatever the case may be, the common belief is that the Dutch purchased Long island for a few toys.

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your answer is 1930's

explanation

this is just around the time the great depression was starting and putting the us ecnomy into ecnomic failure causing the goverment to take a much larger rule to try and pieace it back together