<P> The Native American Trade refers to historic trade between Europeans and their North American descendants and the Indigenous people of North America (today known as Native Americans in the United States, and First Nations in Canada, but formerly as "Indians"), beginning before the colonial period and continuing through the 19th century, although declining it around 1937 . </P> <P> The term Indian Trade describes the people involved in the trade . The products involved varied by region and era . In most of Canada the term is synonymous with the fur trade, since fur for making beaver hats was by far the most valuable product of the trade, from the European point of view . Demand for other products resulted in trade in those items: Europeans asked for deerskin in the Southeast coast of the United States, and for buffalo skins and meat, and pemmican on the Great Plains . In turn, Native American demand influenced the trade goods brought by Europeans . </P>

Traded mainly with developing nations such as mexico and india