Explanation: The First Nations and the HBC The First Nations people were essential to the fur trade because they were the trappers. First Nations middlemen collected furs from the interior and brought them to the forts on Hudson's Bay to trade them for rifles, ammunition, pots, cloth, needles, axes, knives, muskets, and glass beads.
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