1400-1650
Colonial Meetings
The first recorded 'meetings' with the French voyageurs in the Great Lakes, were not so much about land acquisition as trade - but other early stories of Indigenous encounters with French, Spanish, English and Portuguese explorers in the Americas have common roots. Here we look at the impact of a variety of those international encounters on indigenous inhabitants, including the effects of settlement and trade on the land and resources, the devastation of local populations by disease, and the unfolding economic, political and social relationships between European and Indigenous Nations in the Americas.