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Trade. With the Vikings they wanted metal and status objects. Later and further south they wanted metal and firearms. Then they wanted them to go away.
It's generally agreed that the arrival of European settlers was of no benefit to the First Nations. They lost their land and often their lives too because of warfare, through starvation or most usually through diseases brought by Europeans, to which they had no resistance.
When the first Europeans arrived in North America their system of government differed from that of the indigenous peoples. The Europeans used a hierarchy of government. The indigenous people had a cultural government.
The first nations helped the Europeans because it was good to trade with them to get metals for fur.
Indians. Indians are what the europeans called the natives when they first met in the tundra region Canada.