The first French Settlers in New France, especially in and around what is now Quebec, were mostly fur traders who were interested in developing trade relations with the Native Americans, instead of taking over their land.
For this reason, they tried to establish friendly contact with the First Nations, and managed to do so to an important degree because during the first decades of the New France colony, relations between the two groups were mostly peaceful and fruitful. Some French settlers even married Native American women, and a few other abandoned western life and went to live with the tribes.
