Stormborn posted:.Amerindians were enslaved and their land taken whole scale.
The Dutch TRADED with the Amerindians and used them as slave catchers. Their attempts to enslave the Amerindians didn't work, as the Amerindians knew the terrain and how to escape. The Dutch saw more profited in trade, and enslaving Africans who couldn't escape because the Amerindians caught them, returned them and were PAID for their efforts. FACT!
Find another narrative but equating the treatment of Amerindians with enslaved Africans is silly. What decimated the Amerindians was disease. The coastal lands were mangrove swamps and I doubt that many, other than the lowly Warau, who fled there escaping more aggressive groups like the Caribs, were displaced.
You can argue as to who did the displacing. The rest of Guyana remained unused until the late 19thC when it became useful for mining and timber. Slavery had long ended by then.
And is Eric Phillips asking for any lands in the interior?