Both the Dutch and French were fur traders in the New World. What was the effect of the fur trade on Native Americans?

Positive Effects:

-Native americans are introduced to new animals, tools, weapons, and the fur trade.

-it enhanced influence and authority for some native american leaders

-it ensured the protection of native americans involved in the fur trade.

Negative Effects:

-it exposed native americans to european diseases and generated warfare.

-it left native americans dependent on european goods without a corresponding ability to manufacture the goods themselves

-it brought alcholol into indian societies, often with destructive effects.

Explanation:

The fur trade was both very good and very bad for American Indians who participated in the trade. The fur trade gave Indians steady and reliable access to manufactured goods, but the trade also forced them into dependency on European Americans and created an epidemic of alcoholism.

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