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World Service,04 Nov 1993,27 mins

Trade West

Making America

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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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