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Much of this was subsequently lost and, as a result, the history of Native Americans is often presented as a morality tale. White Americans, headed by the federal government, were the âbad guysâ, cheating Indians out of their land and resources.
The French and the Native American. The French and the Native American held a mutual-gain relationship. The French came to America mainly for the fur trade, which the Native American was already doing. A good example of the French-Native American relationship in those days is the movie Black Robe. The French were trying to convert the Indians to Catholicism, but they were not pushing it as hard.