Answer:
They respected Native territories, their ways, and treated them as the human beings they were. The Natives, in turn, treated the French as trusted friends. More intermarriages took place between French settlers and Native Americans than with any other European group.
French-Native American relations in the Pays d'en Haut were similar to European-Native American interaction in general across North and South America. The growth of a new culture resulting from the French and Native American cultural exchange was a bad thing.
