Which native groups were hostile to the fur trade in North America?
score:6
In general, all native groups were eager to pursue the fur trade and were quite happy to have found a seemingly unlimited market in these weird white people. On the other hand, most if not all groups were also quite market-astute and were keen on maintaining their monopoly. Thus, they were prone to be hostile to trappers who would venture into the actual hunting grounds. From the point of view of a Native American group, the best place where Europeans could be was the trading post, and certainly not further inland. This biography of Samuel de Champlain contains ample descriptions of the relationships between native groups and European explorers/traders/colonists in the Saint-Laurent and Great Lakes area; a recurrent theme is a combination of friendly welcomes and evasiveness when it comes to actually describing and mapping the geographical features of the continent.
Moreover, North American tribes were operating under a complex set of very fluid alliances, agreements and generalized warfare. European traders who were dealing with native groups soon became embroiled into these diplomatic vagaries. Fur-related deals often implied terms such as exclusivity, and possibly overt hostility toward other traders.
To my knowledge, there is no example of a group who was opposed to trading outright; only hostility toward specific groups of traders, and an eagerness to maintain "trade secrets".
More post
- 📝 Did the Iraqis really only use landlines during Desert Storm?
- 📝 How did society regard identical twins in the 17th century in Europe?
- 📝 Why does Spain have enclaves in Morocco?
- 📝 Does the expansion of the U.S federal government after 1865 support the argument that U.S civil war itself was about states' rights?
- 📝 Who kept official records in 19th century America?
- 📝 Which US Presidents travelled around the world?
- 📝 Were Ferdinand and Isabella the most important royal couple?
- 📝 When and how did the term "Nazi" start replacing the term "Germans" in the context of WW2?
- 📝 Why didn't Native Americans have big sailing ships?
- 📝 Novgorod means "New city". Given such name, what were the old cities in the region?
- 📝 Did Mithraism and other Roman cults surpass the original Greco-Roman religion in popularity before the rise of Christianity?
- 📝 Was there self-censorship in private correspondence in the early 19th Century?
- 📝 Age of Finnish soldiers in Winter War and Continuation War
- 📝 Is this true that the requirement to sacrifice to the Roman gods was put in by the Caesar only after Christianity emerged?
- 📝 Why did the Spartans learn to read and write if they weren't allowed to keep records?
- 📝 What was the consequence of Gestapo being declared a criminal organization in the Nuremberg trials in 1945?
- 📝 What political events led to the Separate Car Act that was upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson?
- 📝 Was John Cabot the first European to reach Newfoundland since (arguably) the Vikings?
- 📝 Why was Ruminawi not eligible to the throne?
- 📝 Did Nazi propaganda really claim that England imposed the war on Germany?
- 📝 Who was Richard of York at the Battle of Grunwald?
- 📝 What caused scientific and cultural decline of East Roman (Byzantine) Empire?
- 📝 RAF Vulcan nuclear missions - returning to base planning
- 📝 Why couldn't the Ottoman Empire modernise at the same time as Meiji Japan did?
- 📝 Is there a historical basis for the "day of the false King" described in The Egyptian?
- 📝 Why did native Americans and Europeans mix in South America but not in North America?
- 📝 Why isn't there a single trace of Germanic influence in Iberian Languages?
- 📝 Why is there no Islamic architecture with glass in windows before the 18th century?
- 📝 Plate armour worn by men-at-arms fighting on foot 1380-1415
- 📝 Is there a relationship between Portugal and Spain being able to discover the New World and the Moor occupation?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Which native groups were hostile to the fur trade in North America?
- 📝 What were the reasons that the British colonies in North America rebelled but not others?
- 📝 Were the (early 17th C) arrivers/colonists to North America (USA) outcasts from European societies?
- 📝 What were the native North American concepts of property rights and market exchange?
- 📝 How kind were the Muslim occupations of North Africa?
- 📝 Why does Latin America have a higher number of surviving Native Americans than North America?
- 📝 Are there any documented examples of wooden ships which were in active service for 100 years or more? If not, what is the longest?
- 📝 Why did native Americans and Europeans mix in South America but not in North America?
- 📝 What made the Russian Navy suspect Japanese torpedo boats were in North Sea in 1904?
- 📝 What were the thoughts of the Celts, Romans and other ancient European people about the standing stones which survive from prehistoric times?
- 📝 Were there any successful attempts by the Allies to "turn" groups of Axis soldiers?
- 📝 Which were the last castles to be besieged and fall in the United Kingdom?
- 📝 Were there any Roman villas in Britain which were used rather than destroyed after the Romans left?
- 📝 Demographics: Were diseases the sole reason for the decrease in native Hawaiian population?
- 📝 What weapons were manufactured in India by the British forces which were used during world wars?
- 📝 Were any of the early settlements in America attacked from the sea?
- 📝 What were the factors that aided Margaret Thatcher in her victory against the trade unions when her predecessors failed?
- 📝 How many acres per person were needed for the early American settlers vs. the native Americans?
- 📝 Have there been any nuclear accidents in the US at nuclear facilities which were not "commercial"?
- 📝 How were the Morisco refugees from Europe received in North Africa, given that they were foreigners and Christian?
- 📝 Which were the continent-wide common languages in human history?
- 📝 Were there any other systems which resemble the complex election procedure for the doge of Venice
- 📝 Which texts/works were lost due to the Mongol invasions of Baghdad?
- 📝 To what extent were religious groups persecuted in the Soviet Union?
- 📝 Which operating system were the hackers at the MIT AI Lab using in 1971?
- 📝 What universities existed in Dutch East Indies, and how available were they to the native population?
- 📝 Were there any well-established land trade routes in the US colonies around 1700? What did they look like?
- 📝 Which days in the Mayan calendar were most auspicious for performing sacrifices?
- 📝 Which parts of the Townshend Act were repealed in 1770?
- 📝 How did the education system in Colonial North America work?