As English sociologist, John Hobson noted, the modern world-system could not have expanded without colonies of exploitation and settlement. Native American Indians who inhabited these colonies endured everything from genocide to mutual acculturation. The Native American experience as part of the colony of exploitation shared similar characteristics as well as differences from the colony of the settlement. The colony of exploitations" major purpose was to exploit the natural resources of the environment. Examples of these resources were hides of buffalo or cattle that were killed for food. Furs of various types of animals that were predators were also used. These natural resources were used in the exploitation of these colonies. The colony of settlements main function consisted of the European population who had settled with the Indians. There were many different kinds of settlement the Europeans introduced to the Native American Indians. Some examples of these types!.
of settlement were farms, towns, mines and industry. The colonies of exploitation and settlement changed the Indians lives as well as how the modern world-system expanded.
The colony of exploitations" purpose was to exploit natural resources such as furs and hides. These resources were used for trade among the Native American Indians as well as with the Europeans. According to Sylvia Van Kirk's essay, The Role of Native American Women in the Fur Trade Society of Western Canada, 1670-1830, the fur trade gave the Europeans and the Indians a common ground. "First, by its very nature the Canadian fur trade was predicated on a mutual exchange and dependency between Indian and white. "The only good Indian" was certainly not a "dead Indian," for it was the Indian who provided both the fur pelts and the market for European goods" (Kirk, p.143). The trade was so successful, at times it lead to the marriage of Indian women with some of the traders.
