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The “discovery” by Columbus of the New World in 1492 was followed by the establishments of European colonies with French initially in the north and down the Mississippi. The arrival of European settlers in the late 1500s-early 1600s in North America disrupted the Native American tribes that had been living peacefully there for centuries. The responses European settlers had to Native American tribes reflected their own cultural and economic viewpoints. As a result, the Native Americans’ lives changed drastically. The French had developed peaceful, mutually beneficial relations with Native Americans in the establishment of the French fur trade and culturally befriended them. On the other hand, the British tended to oppress Native Americans economically and culturally and denied their potential contributions to helping growing settlements in the New World.
The French were very nice with the Native Americans, especially compared to how the British treated them. They did not respond with any tyranny, they helped them with their economy and even with their enemies. They did not judge them in terms of religion and actually accepted it very peacefully without any problems. The French enlisted Native Americans for trade and they then traded them with goods that the Native Americans appreciated like knives and beads. Without knowing so, the French incidentally heightened the Native American economy by trading with them. They did not create many settlements along wilderness and that was partially because the French did not have many people. People like Samuel Champlain and the Quebec colony had shaped a very sociable relationship with the Native Americans. They were very pleasant to each other and they were calm both economically and culturally. The French helped the Native Americans in fighting off the Iroquois even though they were under threat themselves from them. The French had a very mutually beneficial relationship with Native Americans and it worked out well for

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