Jun 15, 2012
What was the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the colonists?
The Aboriginal people had a sort of love/hate relationship with the colonists. Europeans first came to Jacques Cartier kidnapped Taignoagny and Domagaya, the sons of a local Iroquois chief, and left with them to return home. A year later he returned to explore the Great River. Though the chief’s sons had been kidnapped, they agreed to be Cartier’s guides. They saw the great trade possibilities that were emerging from an alliance with the French. The French continued to use force to get their way and the Natives continued, for a while, to try to co-operate.