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Analysis: The Search For The Northwest Passage

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The search for the Northwest Passage brought many explorers to what is now known as the Canadian arctic. The first explorer to have made the journey was Martin Frobisher, an English seaman. In 1576, he made contact with the indigenous group called the Inuit.
Once word of the Northwest Passage spread, many more European explorers came sailing to the arctic. Not many conflicts arose from the contact between the Europeans and the Inuit. In exchange for European goods, such as metal, rifles, tobacco, cloth and food, the Inuit provided items obtained though their traditional way of life. Some of which include caribou skins and meat, whalebone, walrus ivory, dogs and fish.
Cooperation with the Inuit was essential for these early explorers, because
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