Global Commerce: Fur

Due to the promotion of booming business, fur has now joined the list of valuable commerce items. Like most trading items, there is work to be done to acquire it. Given that fur is a natural biological resource, there are methods that the average businessman did not have in his or her bag of skills. Trapping was a skill honed predominantly by native peoples, in this instance, in America. European traders would travel into parts of America, like New England, or the South to find chief trappers for fur. Although these natives were paid for their labor, this in a sense, broke up the culture for those tribal practices. For the tribes, trapping fur was not a means of business, but a means of survival. With cold winters, warmth was a necessity to help each population survive. As a result, with the increasing demand for fur, the supply became scarce, by eradicating populations for their pelts.