Contributions that the First Nations peoples made
to the success of the Europeans
- taught European traders how to build canoes, toboggans, fish nets and snowshoes for transportation
- acted as guides showing the European traders the best trails and routes
- acted as go-betweens and translators
- showed the European traders how to catch, prepare, and preserve food
- provided suitable clothing such as moccasins, leggings, and mittens
TRY THIS Look at the painting by Francis Ann Hopkins, first woman painter to travel in the west. There are both First Nations and European technologies in the painting. Can you list some of them? click here to see the painting
mouse over pictures
to enlarge
