The land we live on, known as the Americas was home to an abundant amount of societies that were diverse in language and social structure before colonization, war, and disease had set its course. According to the text Give me Liberty in the year of 1492 when Christopher Columbus had ventured out making contact with the West Indian Islands is when a motion was set, causing harsh impacts on the development of history. The Americas came to be the way they are due to some of the power countries that made significant moves during that time. Spain is one such country to have made impact, and France is another. Both countries colonized indigenous people, and converted them to Catholicism. Spaniards took the Americas, and the French took Canada.
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“In the seventeenth century, French policy toward the indigenous people of New France relied on the assimilation of the natives to French religion and culture.” In this quote Canada is referred to as new france, which depicts how france wanted to enmesh the two cultures together, rather than throw indigenous culture away completely. By treating the natives like actual humans, the French had the opportunity to interact with the natives more smoothly. They were able to have natural and frequent communication with indigenous people, which gave way to the French having normal discussions on religion and other affairs. This worked better for the assimilation of New France because the French treated the indigenous with respect due to the factual understanding that by doing so it would only be mutually beneficial. Treating the communities with respect helped with easier trade between the French and indigenous people. “... in their dealing fairly with the Native American in the economically important fur trade, and in openness toward the Native people's religious and cultural practices. The result, it is claimed, was "mutually beneficial and mutually binding relations [between the French and Native American] from which it became virtually impossible for either party to extricate itself.” This quote shows the French’s openness to the indigenous peoples cultures by giving common respect and how it ended up benefitting both
“In the seventeenth century, French policy toward the indigenous people of New France relied on the assimilation of the natives to French religion and culture.” In this quote Canada is referred to as new france, which depicts how france wanted to enmesh the two cultures together, rather than throw indigenous culture away completely. By treating the natives like actual humans, the French had the opportunity to interact with the natives more smoothly. They were able to have natural and frequent communication with indigenous people, which gave way to the French having normal discussions on religion and other affairs. This worked better for the assimilation of New France because the French treated the indigenous with respect due to the factual understanding that by doing so it would only be mutually beneficial. Treating the communities with respect helped with easier trade between the French and indigenous people. “... in their dealing fairly with the Native American in the economically important fur trade, and in openness toward the Native people's religious and cultural practices. The result, it is claimed, was "mutually beneficial and mutually binding relations [between the French and Native American] from which it became virtually impossible for either party to extricate itself.” This quote shows the French’s openness to the indigenous peoples cultures by giving common respect and how it ended up benefitting both