The European Exploration of Louisiana and the Mississippi had some similar and different techniques used than in the exploration of Brazil. The French once they landed in the Louisiana and Mississippi area stated to barter with the natives. The French were looking for gold, silver, and anything that was shinny. The Portuguese sailors got off their ships and started enslaving the natives to work in mines, and the Portuguese sailors took the women and raped them. These two ways of first meetings between the Portuguese and French with the natives were entirely different since the French took more of a friendly route of taking land away from the Natives. Both the French and the Portuguese tried to enslave the natives to work in mines and gather
