Champlain Lake: Relationship Between The French And The Natives

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The Native Americans who inhabited the land prior to the arrival of Samuel de Champlain did not have the same values of private property as the English and French settlers did. Samuel de Champlain named Champlain Lake after himself in 1609 and personally claimed the land for the French and himself. The French and the Natives had a drastically different relationship to the land of Vermont that really interested me. The Natives, specifically the Abenaki in Vermont, had a deep, soulful connection to Earth and all of its inhabitants. According to the Albers reading, the Natives believed there was a being in inanimate objects; a rock was more than just a rock, which gave the land a spiritual value that needed to be sustained. This