Fur Trade Video

This video will help you answer the following questions: Why were European nations competing with each other here in North and South America? List the countries involved. Why was the fur trade, a source of conflict and tension between European nations and Indigenous nations? What conflict and tension was there between the British and the French? What conflict and tension was there between the British and American colonists? What conflict was there between the Dakota and the Ojibwe? Why did Europeans want furs? Especially beaver pelts? Why did Indigenous people (Dakota, Ojibwe and others) want manufactured goods like metal pots/pans, glass beads, glass containers, firearms, steel tools? What happened near the end of the fur trade that led to the United States buying a lot of the land of the Dakota and Ojibwe? How do we relate to the fur trade today? List a few different examples of how it connects to us?