e French troupes to be drawn into intertribal war in1609- Champlain obtained his fur treaty with the Algonkian when he helped them defeat the Mohawk (Iroquois) in a battle using French Firearms in 1610- in exchange for the fur the Algonkians received steel weapons from the French which they used to drive the Mohawks far south of the St. Lawrence River- by 1614 the French shifted their interest on the fur trade from the Algonkins to the Hurons and the Algonkians were reduced to second partners, though they remained in business with the French- Algonkians after the Mohawks gained support of the Dutch and had access to European's weapons lost battles and pretty much went out of site as far as the French concerned- eventually Algonkian set fur trading post along the north end of the Ottawa Valley- the Algonkian remained important allies to the French until the French and Indian war (1755 - 63)- once French were defeated and the British took over, they choose made allies with Iroquosi over the Algonkian- although Algonkians fought along side with the British in the American Revolution in (1775 -83), following the war they were moved out of their homelands to make room for new communes.- finally the Canadian government established ten reserves for the Algonkians to live in but this was only a tiny portion of what once was their original homeland,...
