"The creation of the middle ground involved a process of mutual invention by both the French and the Algongulans. This process passed through various stages, of which the earliest is at once the most noticed and the least Interesting. It was In this initial stage that the French, for example, simply assimizited Indians into their own conceptual order Indians became sumper, and the French reduced Instan religion to devil worship and wittheraft. Algongulans, for their part, thought of the first Europeans as municious/spirits! On both sides new people were crammed into existing categories in a mechanical way: Source: Rehard White Nstorian The Middle Ground 1991 Present-day Nstorians would most likely agree with which of the following aspects of the historical Interpretation advanced in the passage? Choose 1 answer: A French traders and Algonquians had a relationship of mutual respect and understanding. D French traders fully assimilated Indigenous people into their culture through trade relationships. C Early interactions between Europeans and indigenous people were less significant than later ones. D Europeans and indigenous people had diverging worldviews a struggled to understand each other.