beavers strictly for practicality before Europeans arrived‚ they traded excessive amounts of beaver pelts to Euro Americans in the fur trade. Due to a rapidly declining population from introduced diseases and the desire of foreign manufactured goods‚ such as addictive alcohol and cooking utensils‚ Native Americans were forced by the market to act as middlemen in the fur trade.3 This shift in perspective is notable because it exemplifies the ability of the market to commodify a natural resource and to
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Popé. One of France’s goals in settling in the United States was to get fur for Europe‚ since it was in great demand. This was pretty successful since the French were able to trade with the Indians for fur. The French also wanted to convert the Indians to Jesuit in a calmer manner‚ but the Indians became skeptical of the religion when their prayers didn’t save them from the diseases. The Dutch set up a colony mainly to do trade with the Indians- but it was very unsuccessful because the colonies population
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French noble appointed by the king of France to set up trading posts in Canada. Champlain was given control of the Fur trade in exchange for establishing a French colony. Champlain‚ De Monts and approximately 60 settlers set up their first trading post called “port Royal” in 1605. Unfortunately Port Royal was not a great success‚ for that reason De Monts lost control of the Fur trade. Despite Champlain’s’ luck he was convinced that Canada was profitable. In 1608 he led an expedition arriving in what
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with western Europeans advancing from the east and Russians and Americans from the West‚ changed the tempo and nature of indigenous warfare by creating new and intensified opportunities for young males to compete. The developing fur trade changed the demographics‚ trade networks‚ access to the sources of new goods‚ and the competitive structure among all subarctic societies. Western goods‚ as critical material resources‚ have been argued as being the objects over which warfare is instigated. We argue
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The Iroquois attacked and raided other Indian Nations allied with the French in present-day Ohio‚ Indiana‚ Michigan‚ and Ontario to gain access to their fur-bearing lands. As a result‚ many of these Indian Nations‚ including the Sauk‚ Fox‚ Potawatomi‚ Mascouten‚ Kickapoo‚ Ottawa‚ Miami and Huron‚ fled for more remote areas of the west. The Sioux Nations blocked travel of these Nations across the Mississippi
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practical; with so much money the old system was transformed to the new economic system. At the same time the fur trade was started‚ there was a huge amount of fur that even middle class can afford it. The fur trade was highly organized and it has led to the standardization of goods‚ work and laborers. It was the beginning of modern corporations; the discovery of America started the trade revolution‚ and this revolution needs more and more working class. So‚ slavery market was huge‚ thereby the population
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the frontier meant a steady movement away form the influence of Europe. -The areas that had been settled upon were a source of political concern since it was surrounded by Indians. -The frontier led to trade between Indians& whites. I.e. astor’s American Fur co. operated in the Indian trade. -The need to expand is inherent in Americans (Erie Canal‚ extension of cotton culture). -California(gold rush) was a distinctive frontier. Now settlers needed means of communication w/the East. -Railroads
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Aboriginal Canadians and European settlers In the history of contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada‚ there has been an imbalance in acculturative influences. Generally‚ Aboriginal peoples have been changed substantially‚ with serious erosion of their cultures and identities. However‚ this dominance by Euro Canadian peoples has also been met by resistance by Aboriginal peoples. Policy and programme changes to alter the relationship between these two sets
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basically free labor‚ which was very beneficial since labor was scarce and expensive. At this time‚ the fur trade also became important. The French people were really focusing on the fur trade‚ which meant working with the Native Americans. It was the Native Americans job to go and hunt the animals for the French people. The fur did not only keep them warm‚ it also became very fashionable to wear fur. As a “payment” to the Indians for helping them to hunt the animals they got weapons‚ corn‚ squash and
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The population of New France at around 1750 was about 80‚000 people. The French almost exclusively devoted themselves to fur trading with the Indians. This kind of trade brought the French lots of wealth‚ but it did not promote the settlement. France differed from Spain and England through its governmental leadership‚ views on women‚ relationships with the native Americans‚ and it’s slavery. In the French government‚ the people of New France had to voice in their government. The king‚ along with
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