How did the relationship between the French and Indians differ from the relationship between the Spanish and Indians?

The major difference between the way that the Spanish and the French treated "their" Indians was based on the respective economic and societal needs of the two European nations. The French used the Indians as economic partners, but did not really try to integrate them that much into a colonial society.Explanation:

the economic difference between the three colonial regions. shipbuilding, whaling, fishing, and trapping where also main factors to the economy. the southern regional colonies economy was based on sugarcane, rice, cotton, tobacco, and indigo.