The document discusses cooperation between Native Americans and European settlers in North America. It provides examples of how some Native American tribes, such as the Powhatan and Huron, helped the settlers by teaching them farming, hunting, fishing and trading goods to help them survive. Another example given is Squanto, who translated for and helped the English settlers sign treaties with tribal leaders and taught them farming techniques. The interaction had both positive and negative effects - the settlers learned essential skills but disease, loss of land, and conflict also resulted from contact.

1. Unit 3: Lesson 2
How did the Native Americans
and Europeans Cooperate?
By Mr. Casey

2. AGENDA
•Vocabulary
•Native American & European
Cooperation

3. ally
•(noun) a person or group that helps
another for a common purpose

4. treaty
•(noun) a written political agreement
between two or more groups

5. EXAMPLES OF COOPERATION IN
NORTH AMERICA
● NOT ALL Native Americans and Europeans
competed.
○ Many countries worked with the Native
Americans in the fur trade or to trade other
goods. In many cases they would becomes allies
and sign a treaty.

6. HELP! HELP! We won’t survive without you!
Powhatan
1.Teaches settlers
how to farm, hunt, and
fish
2. Gave and traded
essential goods to help
them survive the first two
years
(Fought with them
regularly)

7. HELP! HELP! We won’t survive without you!
HuronThe French
(Quebec)
develop a
strong trading
relationship
with the Huron
making the
French and
Huron wealthy

8. HELP! HELP! We won’t survive without you!
Squanto
1.Translates to
trade and sign
treaties (protection
against the
Narragansett)
2.Teaches them
farming techniques

9. LESSON 2-American Indians help the English
NATIVE AMERICANS HELP SETTLERS-
● Traded food and other goods to the
English settlers
● Taught them how to farm
● Taught them about local plants and
medicine
● Taught them how to grow tobacco
● Translated and helped settlers
communicate with tribal leaders (sign
treaties)

10. POSITIVE EFFECTS OF INTERACTION
● Native Americans are introduced to new
animals, tools, weapons, and the fur trade.
● The trade of ideas and goods changes the way
of life for the Native Americans and Europeans
● The settlers learned essential skills like
farming, hunting, and fishing. They were also
taught how to use local plants for medicine and
food.

11. NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF INTERACTION
● DISEASE
● LOSS OF LAND
● CONFLICT
● DEPENDANCE
○ Some Native American tribes become
dependent on trade with the Europeans (tools,
animals)