French and Spanish Influance
The French and Spanish responded differently to the culture and economy of the Native Americans. Even though both countries traveled to the New World for riches, their ways of obtaining the riches could not have been more different. The Spanish decided to conquer and enslave the Indians. The French traded peacefully with the Indians and changed both the Indian culture and their own culture to gain confidence with the Indians. The type of Spaniard, which arrived on the New World before 1750, was either a monk or a conquistador. The job of the conquistadors was to capture Indian cities and then loot them of all their riches. After the capturing and looting of cities, the conquistadors would usually enslave all the surviving Indian people to earn money for the conquistador. The Spanish government did not mind this because they got one fifth of all the profits of these settlements know
The effect of this was the Indians did not accept Catholicism but they also lost ties to their own culture. No part of Indian culture was allowed to be retained by the Native Americans. This was different then the Spanish in the sense that the French married according to Indian customs. Fur trapping became the main occupation of northern Indians and trade the main way of obtaining other supplies. The French had a more peaceful approach to the Indians. The main difference between the two is that the French did not force the Indians to change. A few Jesuit monks did arrive in the New World to convert Indians, but Christianity was not forced onto the Indians. This created a natural block against any people with Native American blood holding a high position in Spain, which was probably one of the main reasons Indian slavery was never put into question by the Spaniards. Because of the lack of Spanish women, the conquistadors intermarried with the Indians creating a new race called Mestizos. The Spanish conquistadors destroyed the Indian civilizations, and the Spanish monks destroyed the Indian culture. For this reason, Indian culture changed to accommodate the French. The French and the Spanish both had a negative overall effect on the Indians. These "servants of God" destroyed the Indian temples and built churches where they once lay. The French had a higher moral obligation to the Indians then the Spanish.
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