The speaker says Indigenous peoples might have exploited rivalries among English, French, Dutch, and Ottoman powers if those powers had been involved in early New World colonization, but they were not involved at that time.

“Dutch even the Ottomans had been players in New World colonization at that very early stage it may have been possible for local peoples to identify okay these are different cultures we can play them off against each other to our advantage that may have been the game but at that time it wasn't possible”