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Episode four: European settlers head west into land inhabited by Native Americans

American historians give Christopher Cook their accounts of vital moments in the making of the United States.

Episode four: European settlers head west into land inhabited by Native Americans.

"The Oregon trail wasn't a worry at the beginning to our people because there wasn't too many and they hadn't started to use our food resources," Nelson Wallulatum, chief of the Wasco Indians.

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project