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Genre: Entertainment
Date of upload: Oct 2, 2020 ^^
Rating : 4.97 (803/106,015 LTDR)
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So my 10 year old’s teacher asked the class if anyone had heard of the Donner Party and my little one raised her hand and pretty much took over the class. Thanks to this video. I got a text from the teacher asking how/why she knew so much about such a grisly thing. So yeah...that was my week. How’re you guys doing?
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FUN FACT! The Donner Party was offered a lot of help from a few of the local native tribes! They not only offered supplies, but advised them not to attempt to cross the mountains. Of course, they turned them down, calling them "savages," but the kind native people didn't take no for an answer. They would send a few people to deliver food, blankets, and other commodities just outside their camp! Of course, the Donners still didn't accept help from the "savages". (I believe this was outside the camp at what is now Donner Lake). After attempting once again to assist the unfortunate invaders, the native people were shot at by the Donners, and so they decided to give up. And so, as the story goes, the Donners crossed the mountains and started eatin' each other. Now that's savage.
(Someone can fact check me here, I think I got it right but my memory could be fuzzy)
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I'm sitting here as a Californian going... "Wait, do they not teach students in other states about the Donner Party? Why is everyone acting like they don't know how this ends?" I remember being 7 years old watching a dramatized video about the Donner party and being HORRIFIED, and then shortly after that getting stuck in a blizzard on a highway in the winter time with my family for about 5 hours.
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@fancydeer
3 years ago
so the daughters who ate their dead father, that was one thing. dude died and was like "hey you're my kids, I don't want you to starve. this is the last thing I can do for you." but those freaks out in the mountains just started killing their friends left and right and were like "we had no other choice".
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