Economic contact between Native Americans and European colonists began in the early stages of European settlement.https://www.worldhistory.org/European_Colonization_of_the_Americas/ From the 17th century to the 19th century, the English and French mainly traded for animal pelts and fur with Native Americans.Vaughan 1929, p. 215 In the late 1700s, Spanish explorers started settling in southern California and initiated the establishment of missions. These missions served as focal points for interactions between Native Americans and Spanish settlers, encompassing cultural exchanges, political negotiations, trade activities, and economic developments. Evidence of these exchanges and developments were kept by the Spanish who maintained detailed ledgers documenting items that were traded in Santa Barbara between them and the Chumash that lived in the missions. Eventually, wars, the dwindling of Native American populations, and the westward expansion of the United States led to the confinement of tribes to reservations and the end of this kind of economic relations between Indians and European Americans.
Economic contact between Native Americans ,and European colonists began in the early stages of European settlement.https://www.worldhistory.org/European_Colonization_of_the_Americas/ From the 17th century to the 19th century, the English and French mainly traded for animal pelts and fur with Native Americans.Vaughan 1929, p. 215 In the late 1700s, Spanish explorers started settling in southern California and initiated the establishment of missions. These missions served as focal points for interactions between Native Americans and Spanish settlers, encompassing cultural exchanges, political negotiations, trade activities, and economic developments. Evidence of these exchanges and developments were kept by the Spanish who maintained detailed ledgers documenting items that were traded in Santa Barbara between them and the Chumash that lived in the missions. Eventually, wars, the dwindling of Native American populations, and the westward expansion of the United States led to the confinement of tribes to reservations and! the end of this kind of economic relations between Indi!ans and European Americans.