In the reading by Jennifer M. Spear, “They Need Wives: Metissage and the Regulations of Sexuality in French Louisianan, 1699-1730,” she talks about the interracial relationships between the French men and Indian women and the maintenance of cultural bonds of both races. During this period, New France was in the process of colonization; therefore, being a new land there were no French women these young colonizers could marry. As a result the Frenchmen of Louisiana began to form bonds with the naïve Indian women and soon after began getting married to them.
Spear explains that due to the lack of women in New France administrators and missionaries had a tough time controlling the outbreak of relationships that was occurring between the French
