The French clashed with the Meskwaki (sometimes mistakenly called the Fox) and their Sac allies who were forced south from their homelands in Wisconsin and Michigan into eastern Iowa. As the French and English battled for control the Atlantic Coast and Canada, they made allegiances with tribes. Internal competition among both American Indians and European sides of the trading partnership led to conflicts. They brought with them manufactured goods - blankets, cookware, knives, guns - to exchange for beaver, deer and other skins that sold for high prices in Europe. The earliest French and English these tribes encountered were not settlers competing for lands fur trappers and traders. French and English colonies along the Atlantic Coast displaced eastern American Indian tribes who were forced west to compete with existing tribes. The arrival of Europeans on the continent had an impact on the Midwest long before permanent settlers came.
They established villages to which they returned for many years after seasonal deer and buffalo hunts. By around 1,200 C.E., corn had migrated along the Gulf Coast and up the Mississippi to tribes in the Upper Midwest who became known as the Oneota culture. Gradually, groups began to plant and harvest gardens of corn, beans, pumpkins and squash and gather nuts, berries and fruits to supplement their meat supply. They lived along the edges of the receding glaciers and hunted large game animals. The first people to live in what we now call Iowa may have arrived some 8,000-10,000 years ago. What factors, forces or reasons cause people to move from one geographic area to another? A A State Historical Society of Iowa - Secondary Navigation
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