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The fur trade had its tensions but for many years traders and natives worked out their own systems times and traditions allowing many different groups to interact and even compete without issues that led to war Though native groups sometimes found themselves in conflicts based on longstanding rivalries or relations with the Europeans most of the fur traders the trappers the Indians and Hudsons Bay Company officials lived peaceably The great amount of distance from one another in this land of millions of miles likely helped to alleviate tensions When a new vision for the Hudsons Bay Company came about one where settlers not itinerants would be responsible for the colony the rules changed