Description "Trade Your Furs or Die" This was not a threat - it was simply Radisson reminding his Native friends that they could die in war or starvation if they did not Trade with him, as their neighboring enemies would have the European guns and knives instead.
In 1651 he was captured as a child by the Iroquois and became one of them, even becoming a N.
Radisson was the world\'s most successful fur trader because no one understood the Natives better than he did.
Description "Trade Your Furs or Die" This was not a threat - it was simply Radisson reminding his Native friends that they could die in war or starvation if they did not Trade with him, as their neighboring enemies would have the European guns and knives instead
