The French acknowledged the Native Americans as colleagues and business partners while the British treated them as heathens and pressed them out of their territory.
When North America was still being colonized, the Native Americans fashioned numerous and diverse relations with all of the arriving countries. Two countries that stood out from the rest were England and France. Both France and England had many encounters with the Native Americans; however, they both formed very different relationships regarding the respect for one another, their social differences, and the acceptance of each other's economy.
The French were suspicious of the Indian culture, as they did not understand it, yet the French did not impose their culture upon the Indians. The French treated the Indians as equals to themselves. They made strong ties with the Indians that lasted for many years. The British however treated the Indians as if they were beneath them. The British initially made negotiations with Indians for food, and on the occasion that they negotiations did not go through, they would attack with force, killing many innocents. The British felt that the Indians were meant to do slave labor.
The French accepted the Indians over time and eventually even married Indian women. The French had such strong ties with Indians that they employed them as auxiliaries in several of their wars. The British did not accept the Indians like the French and strictly forbid the inter-racial marriage, yet in the case of Jamestown, Virginia, the colonists forced an Indian women to marry a fellow colonist to give them an upper hand on the Indians. The British wanted more land and were not troubled to push the Indians out of it even though the Indians taught them how to grow corn and a few other crops. The British grew tobacco and it wore out the soil every 3 or 4 years, so they constantly needed more land. The British performed many raids on Indian villages in their pursuit of more lands.