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Ensemble: PMF - Peter Minuit Foundation

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Foundation created by Jef Lambrecht & Karel Schoetens (BIWA / Nova Belgica) to gather support for the cause of correcting the historical wrong promoted by Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes, claiming him to be the founder of New York, whereas the waloon Pierre Minuit in fact bought Manahattan Island from local Indians in 1624...

Organisation emerging from the Belgian Institute for World Affairs (BIWA) and "Novum Belgium" or Nova Belgica, merging into the Peter Minuit Foundation specifically to contend with the process against Peter Stuyvesant... The PMF is issuer of certificates and most importantly, the stock option to buy back Manhattan....