Dyewood to furs: the Brazilian origins of French-Amerindian trade. DICKASON, O. P. Yearbook. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 10:19–34, 1984.
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The fur trade in North America, as it evolved during the sixteenth century and into the seventeenth, was developed by the French on the one hand and the aboriginal peoples of the Northeastern forests on the other. It is widely believed that it was in the northern trade that the French learned their techniques for dealing with Amerindians, a type of diplomacy in which they excelled throughout their presence in North America. There is no doubt that North America presented particular challenges demanding creative responses on the part of the French. But the fact that the French rose to those challenges successfully was due to more than the natural aptitude or brotherly sentiments often attributed to them. The French had the benefit of considerable experience in South America where they had also pioneered commercial relations with Amerindians. There they traded for such exotic items as parrots, monkeys, and feathers, but more importantly for cotton and various types of woods, particularly those that produced dye, of which pau-brasil (brazilwood) was the most important. While concommitant for part of the sixteenth century with the fur trade of North America, this Franco-Brazilian trade started earlier and peaked much sooner. It declined toward the end of the century as its northern counterpart gained momentum.
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	series = {Transregional},
	title = {Dyewood to furs: the {Brazilian} origins of {French}-{Amerindian} trade},
	volume = {10},
	url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/43599967},
	abstract = {The fur trade in North America, as it evolved during the sixteenth century and into the seventeenth, was developed by the French on the one hand and the aboriginal peoples of the Northeastern forests on the other. It is widely believed that it was in the northern trade that the French learned their techniques for dealing with Amerindians, a type of diplomacy in which they excelled throughout their presence in North America. There is no doubt that North America presented particular challenges demanding creative responses on the part of the French. But the fact that the French rose to those challenges successfully was due to more than the natural aptitude or brotherly sentiments often attributed to them. The French had the benefit of considerable experience in South America where they had also pioneered commercial relations with Amerindians. There they traded for such exotic items as parrots, monkeys, and feathers, but more importantly for cotton and various types of woods, particularly those that produced dye, of which pau-brasil (brazilwood) was the most important. While concommitant for part of the sixteenth century with the fur trade of North America, this Franco-Brazilian trade started earlier and peaked much sooner. It declined toward the end of the century as its northern counterpart gained momentum.},
	language = {en},
	journal = {Yearbook. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers},
	author = {DICKASON, Olive Patricia},
	year = {1984},
	keywords = {Region: Transregional, Language: English, Country: Canada, Country: Brazil},
	pages = {19--34},
	file = {Dyewood to Furs The Brazilian Origins of French–A.pdf:/Users/bastien/Zotero/storage/54EHJ752/Dyewood to Furs The Brazilian Origins of French–A.pdf:application/pdf},
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