On page 97, the colonists knew that one good gift to get the Indians to come to the meetings would be alcohol. Then on page 98, it says that alcohol was the only one good thing that the Europeans brought. Following on page 99, it says that treaty conferences could not go on without alcohol being present because both cultures see it as a gift of “hospitality and generosity”. Firstly, the Indians were receiving a lot of different items from trading and they were already becoming dependent on the European culture. Alcohol just added more to that list. I think that since tobacco was a high price item, alcohol would be too. Since every meeting had to have rum, it would probably expensive to buy for a large group of people. During this reading, there
