Native American Trade Term Paper by Top Papers

This paper explores Native American tribes in the New World and how they conducted trade. According to the paper, there were hundreds of different tribes joined together in larger groupings, with their own political and social systems already in place when the first settlers arrived. Trade with the Indians developed into an important economic factor, especially as a survival mechanism in the earliest period, but thereafter both for certain goods the colonists needed and also as a factor in cementing relations and avoiding war, at least for a time.