Conflict in the West: 2 Your name is Jacques Gladieux and you are a French fur trader living in New France (see the map on the right). You have lived in New France for six years, trading with the Native Americans. The natives trap animals with valuable fur such as foxes and beavers, and you buy them in exchange for European goods such as iron pots and steel sewing needles. The Native American tribes in this region do not have the technology to make steel and iron products, so they are very eager to trade. After six years in New France, you have made a comfortable life for yourself. You married a Native American woman named Onahtah, from the Iroquois tribe. She helps you communicate with her people. You have made a lot of money living in America and enjoy your life here. Things have started to change recently. English colonists from the coast have started moving into the Ohio Valley, where you do most of your trading. Some of them have started trapping the same animals that you buy from the Native Americans, which is upsetting the Native Americans. Other English colonists are cutting down the forest to build farms, which is scaring the animals and taking land away from the Native Americans. How does Jacques Gladieux feel about what the English colonists are doing? Why? What should he do next? Conflict in the West: 1
Conflict in the West: 2 Your name is Jacques Gladieux and you are a French fur trader living in New France (see the map on the right). You have lived in New France for six years, trading with the Native Americans. The natives trap animals with valuable fur such as foxes and beavers, and you buy them in exchange for European goods such as iron pots and steel sewing needles. The Native American tribes in this region do not have the technology to make steel and iron products, so they are very eager to trade. After six years in New France, you have made a comfortable life for yourself. You married a Native American woman named Onahtah, from the Iroquois tribe. She helps you communicate with her people. You have made a lot of money living in America and enjoy your life here. Things have started to change recently. English colonists from the coast have started moving into the Ohio Valley, where you do most of your trading. Some of them have started trapping the same animals that you buy from the Native Americans, which is upsetting the Native Americans. Other English colonists are cutting down the forest to build farms, which is scaring the animals and taking land away from the Native Americans. How does Jacques Gladieux feel about what the English colonists are doing? Why? What should he do next? Conflict in the West: 1