Native Nations, Ancient Paths: The True Story of the Oregon Trail

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…This was not a war of equals, but a relentless, often cowardly, assault on peoples whose only crime was their existence, their deep connection to the land that the newcomers coveted. The echoes of the ancients were being drowned out by the screams of the violated and the chilling silence of the dead. The true cost of the Oregon Trail was not measured in miles or hardships, but in the lives brutally extinguished, the cultures shattered, and the deep, unhealable wounds inflicted upon the land and its first peoples.