ANTH 4730 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-4: North West Company, Duffel Bag, Smallpox
13 Aug 2016
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Chapter 3 continues along the lines of fur trade, and its eventual expansion to other territories at the expense of indigenous people"s lives. Fur had become one of the most sought after commodity coming out of north america and due to this it led to increase competition among the european traders. At this point many of the french traders had disappeared from the picture, due to the defeat at the hands of the british (pg. European traders went on to build alliances with local indigenous tribes, so that they could later use these alliances to wage war on other indigenous tribes once the natural resources in their region had been depleted. The europeans were hooked onto fur, while the indigenous people were forcefully hooked onto commodities provided by the. However, europeans greed for fur eventually led them eliminating the middle men tribes and developing more outposts near the tribes who were actually doing the hunting and gathering (pg.
