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“What induced [American] Indians to go out of their way to trap beaver and trade the skins for glass beads, mirrors, copper kettles, and other goods?... Recent scholarship on [American] Indians motives in this earliest stage of the trade indicates that they regarded such objects as the equivalents of quartz, mica, shell, and other sacred substances that had formed the heart of long-distance exchange in North America for millennia…. While northeastern [American] Indians recognized Europeans as different from themselves, they interacted with them and their materials in ways that were consistent with their own customs and beliefs.”

-Neal Salisbury, historian, “The Indians’ Old World: Native Americans

Which of the following types of evidence would best support the argument in the excerpt?
a. Artifacts from American Indian settlements
b. Shipping inventories from trade between Liverpool and Boston
c. Spanish government reports about American Indians
d. Diaries from British settlers in Philadelphia

Answer 1

Artifacts from American Indian settlements have helped explain the argument. Why? Because it was these artifacts that helped identify the specific objects which were being used to trade.

Artifacts support the argument that most of these materials were and could have been only acquired through respective trade in a manner that was aligned with the customs of the [American] Indians.

Shipping inventories would not reveal much in detail about the interactions between Natives and Europeans.

Diaries from British settlers would be focused on the life of the colonial community, and would not focus on interaction with Native Americans.

Spanish Government reports would not have a good and close listing of items that were traded, and how.

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