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

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…It is a story of profound cultural collision, of competing visions for the land, and of the devastating consequences that followed when one worldview sought to impose itself upon another without genuine respect or understanding. The trouble, in its truest sense, began not with a single act of aggression, but with the fundamental misunderstanding of a shared existence, the belief that one people’s dreams could be built upon the dispossession of another’s ancestral home. It was a tragedy born of an insatiable hunger for land and a profound ignorance of the enduring spirit of the peoples who had been its stewards for millennia.