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• • the first nations found the blanket , knife , and guns to be quite useful
• • food was also traded
• -the population of the buffalo deacreassed from 40 to 70 millon in the 1800 to less than a thousand by 1900 this affected the lives of the first nations and starvtion occoured
• • buffalo meat, hide , and pemmican were also traded