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.Rivalry between French and Dutch colonists affected Native Americans because the French and Dutch waged warfare to seize the Indians, and the Native Americans were forced off their lands. They moved westward onto the lands of other "Indians".