page 6 of social

• since the british now controlled new france it seemed that hudson bay company had a monopoly (no compeition) in the canadas fur trade
• -however, some british merchants joined with canadien voyageurs and to compete against the hudson bay company
• -European trader + first nation women -> metis children . -knew customs +language of their people (translator) -knew how to live and travel on the land
• • first nations made buffalo jump off cliffs or enclosed them on land used spears and arrows
• • metis hunters rode on horses and fired their riffeles at the buffalo
• • women made pemmican (meat,fat,berries) out of the buffalo meat - it was used in the trade