How did the fur trade influence the relationships between France and selected Indian tribes and between England and selected Indian tribes in North America?

Question

How did the fur trade influence the relationship among Indian tribes in North America connected to the fur trade? How did the introduction of Catholic (Jesuit) missionaries into parts of North America, prompted partly by the fur trade, further fuel tension between French and English colonies in North America?

Answer 1

Answer: An ideal answer will:
1. Discuss how Indian tribes such as the Montagnais and Hurons developed fur trading and other economic trading partnerships with the French.
2. Discuss how the English developed fur trading and more intensive trading relationships with the Iroquois.
3. Discuss how ancient rivalries and warfare among Indians intensified as each tribe battled to control the supply of beaver furs demanded by consumers in Europe.
4. Discuss how the acquisition of European weapons by Indian tribes, obtained through trade with England and France, additionally fueled internecine Indian tribal warfare.
5. Discuss how even though French and British fur traders preferred to make alliances with Indian tribes rather than enslave them, the results of these political and military alliances often were disastrous for tribes such as the Hurons.
6. Discuss how the trade in beaver pelts also encouraged the English and French to make permanent small settlements such as Montreal and Quebec, which had significant implications for Hurons and Iroquois in the region.
7. Discuss how the fur trade and the development of French missions near as Quebec and Montreal encouraged Jesuit missionaries to come to this region, seek to convert Indians such as the Hurons to Catholicism, and fuel tensions between English Protestant settlements.
8. Discuss how the small, isolating geography of French settlements and villages involved in the fur trade contributed to the outbreak of war between the Hurons, supported by the French, and Iroquois Confederation, supported by the British.
9. Discuss the how the defeat of the Hurons was a huge setback to the fur trade that was the economic base of New France.
10. Write a concise and effective conclusion.