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How Expansive Is Oregon Trail History? with Professor Margaret Huettl

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The Mass Extermination of the Buffalo

colonialism disrupted food sources for native people. The biggest impact is the mass extermination of the buffalo, which many native people in the area relied on. Part of it is emigrants themselves, like over grazing their own animals and out competing the buffalo. And then there's some evidence that,. a, the united states government may also have wanted to kind of speed up the, a, extermination of thebuffalo to get native people to comply with removal.

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