1)They had minor roles, an depended on European technology to survive.

2)In his 1958 History of the Hudson’s Bay Company, E.E. Rich noted ‘the marked tendency for Indians to become dependent on the traders, and the danger threatening the trader and the Indian alike if shipping failed and they became completely dependent on the resources of the country.’ It (sic) fact it was the English who were in danger of starvation without the fish, caribou, and geese supplied to them by Cree hunters. There is no evidence that Cree hunters were reduced to relying on the English.

3)The Europeans had to learn about and adapt to Aboriginal cultures, languages, and lifeways. Long before the arrival of Europeans, Aboriginal people had traded furs and many other goods over geographically immense networks, and Europeans were obliged to adapt to these networks.

4)Because they had to learn how to trade furs and travel complicated complex water networks.

5)Really skilled and able to adapt to rapid changes of any sort.

6)They moved their trapping and trading area northwest to become the middle man in the process of the HBC business and this forced the Europeans to work with them.

7)Really smart and thought out to work.

8)They created a trade monopoly that acted as a blockade on the trade of other companies.

9)They didn’t use guns to hunt. And this meant that they didn’t need metals and other resources to hunt.