Which of the following strategies was not a way that French traders and trappers established relations with American Indians in Oklahoma Territory in the early 1700s?

French traders and trappers generally built relationships with American Indian communities through trade, learning local languages, and intermarriage. They also traveled into the region from established bases, including northern settlements and New Orleans. Battling local tribes to seize territory for trading posts was not a relationship-building strategy, so the correct choice is “They battled local tribes for territory to establish trading posts.”

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