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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
