Change in European-Native relations from 1780-1850

Resource depletion
1. decrease in game animals meant increase dependence on European goods
  1. overhunting and trapping cause Ojibiwa to become indebted to the trading companies
2. heavy handed dominance over FN who were dependent on trade
  1. demoralized
3. land taken decreasing ability to hunt and perform migratory way of life
  1. violence on both sides to protect land base
  2. fences erected to keep FN out
4. miners burnt villages and tried to exterminate FN
5. reserves set up and quickly cut in size
  1. poor land
  2. no access to water
6. began trading labour for goods
HBC/NWC merger
1. before merger rivalry between the two benefited FN
  1. needed to keep FN working for them
  2. higher quality goods
  3. better prices
  4. conveniently located posts
2. after merger
  1. closed many posts
  2. traded poorer quality goods
  3. lower prices for furs and higher prices for goods
3. cut out gift giving
4. increased racism
Blackfoot
1. not interested in trading
2. livelihood buffalo which was plentiful
  1. initially did not become dependent on European goods
  2. after buffalo slaughtered became dependent and power and status decreased significantly
3. were able to expand due to metal weapons and disease decimating neighboring tribes
4. trade due to lack of dependence allowed prosperity and an increase in tipi and corral size
5. independence meant treated better
  1. Europeans recognized they needed to use gentler methods to slowly bring them under their control
disease
1. created confusion for FN
  1. elaborate kinship based social relations disrupted
  2. lost heirs to positions and titles
    1. increased potlatches for FN to determine legitamicy claims
  3. weakend FN to European influence/conflict
2. many elders lost
  1. lost oral histories
  2. lost cultural knowledge
  3. lost leadership
    1. missionaries stepped in to fill gap
3. demoralized
Beothuk
1. Pilfered from empty camps so no need to trade
2. Europeans trapped furs so had no need of Beothuk
3. missionaries did not exist to mediate European contact
4. Europeans tried to capture members to establish relations but killed family members in process creating conflict

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Change in European-Native relations from 1780-1850

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