Benefits of Trade for Europeans with Native Americans

In the mid 1800's, trade with the northwest Indian was very popular. One of the names related to the early trade in the Northwest Territories was the Hudson Bay Company. The Hudson Bay is a British company that trades goods with indigenous people to obtain fur, food and other items. Trade with Native American was very popular during this time. Native American desperately wanted what the Europeans had. I am the reason why Europeans think that they will benefit from this trade agreement and then the indigenous peoples of Northwest Territories.

British compete fur with French. In addition, various Native American groups are competing to provide fur to Europeans. Fur trade has established an economic and military alliance between the Europeans and their indigenous trading partners. Huron and Algonquin in the Great Lakes Region alliance with the French. The Iroquois upstream of New York often forms an alliance with the Dutch, and later with the English. The alliance between Europeans and Native Americans has led them to participate in each other 's war. For example, by the middle of the 17th century the Iroquois confined all the beavers in their land. To get more fur, they started a war with Huron and the Algonquin neighbor and drove them to the west. Ultimately the Iroquois ruled north from Maine State West to Ohio Valley and Lake Michigan. The expansion of Iroquous threatened French fur trade. Correspondingly, France armed people of Huron and Algonquin to fight Iroquois. The British armies armed Iroquois

When Europeans came into contact with Native Americans, they began to participate in slave trade. In the first contact with the Europeans, Native American tried to use the prisoners of the enemy tribe as "a way to play tribes against other tribes in a failed division and conquest game." Haida and Tringit, who live on the southeastern coast of Alaska, traditionally known as intense warriors and slave merchants, were attacked in California. In their society, slavery is considered a prisoner of war. Slavery is genetic - children of slaves themselves are slaves. A quarter of the population of some tribes in the northwest Pacific coast is a slave. They are normally purchased by attacking enemy tribes, or in slave markets between tribes. A slave is often killed with a cannon to show contempt for the property of the owner.