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Jun 10, 1500
The Fur Trading
The Algonquins hunted many animals and sold the fur to Euroean traders. The Algonquins has had many wars. The Iroqouis then became in control of the fur tradiing. -
Jun 1, 1570
Algonquin v.s. Iroqouis
The Algonquin formed an alliance with the Montgnais to also fight with the Iroqouis. -
Algonquins are losing
The Algonquins are losing to battle to the Iroqouis, not allowing them to move upward of the St. Lawrence River. -
Samuel DePaul
The leader samuel De Paul created an alliance with the Algonquins, helping them with guns and other weapons. But they did not get any guns, they got steel knives and other types of weapons. -
The Beavers
the Iroquis hid all their beavers then gathered them up north. then the dutch traders helped them with steel weapons that were used to fight the Algonquins then they won. that was because french were busy with England. -
The French become helpful
the french begin to sell guns to the algonquins to help them get back the southern land. at the same time the french jesuits were trying to make everyone become a Catholic. -
SmallPox
the smallpox spread across the eastern woodlands. because of that many algonquins died because of this disease -
The Iroquis became stronger
they became much stronger than the algonquins, so the french were not supporting the algonquins anymore -
the french stepped in
the french finally fought off the Irquis which helped the algonquins start taking control over the trading. -
The British Impacts
the algonquins gave up the alliance with the french and joined the britians.since they were now apart of the britians they fought with the men in the Revolutionary War. -
United States to Canada
after the war the british settlers chose to move north to the algonquin lands. -
Deforestation
the british began to cut the forest trees down and sell the wood. they ruined the algonquins hunting areas. so then they had to move into smaller and smaller reservations.
