The French supply us with tools and useful weapons to give us a great advantage in war. When they came to our land, they did not know how to cultivate on our soil so we fed them our crops in order for them to not starve to death. We grow an abundance of corn and fish that they depend on us to feed them. When they eventually got the hand of our technique, we readily lent them our tactics and they began cultivating on our lands and setting boundaries on their animals, giving our structure of agriculture and animal tending a new European twist. We did not have a problem with sharing our ideas with the French men, for they brought us no harm. We were able to get along for the most part without butting heads too many times.
-Tecumsah of Huron tribe
