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The French acknowledged the Native Americans as colleagues and business partners while the British treated them as heathens and pressed them out of their territory. When North America was still being colonized, the Native Americans fashioned numerous and diverse relations with all of the arriving countries. Two countries that stood out from the rest were England and France. Both France and England had many encounters with the Native Americans; however, they both formed very different relationships regarding the respect for one another, their social differences, and the acceptance of each other’s economy. The French were suspicious of the Indian culture, as they did not understand it, yet the French did not impose their culture upon the Indians. The French treated the Indians as equals