What to Expect:

We explore one of the most extreme circumstances imaginable to try to understand the actions of the surviving (and not) members of the Donner Party. This group of emigrants spent nearly a year attempting to cross the relatively unknown American frontier only to be trapped in a substantial snowstorm which left them immobile in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Yes, they ate their dead. Yes, they killed some people for “food.” And more…

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Links for Today:

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0CzxWpBueNqLVuH1g_gUF58HQ#Journal_Article_on_Historical_Evidence
https://www.etymonline.com/word/cannibal#etymonline_v_667 (Etymology of “cannibal”)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25612556?seq=1 (Article on how “cannibal” was a political term)
https://www.amazon.com/Emigrants-Oregon-California-Lansford-Hastings/dp/1557092451 (The Huckster’s Guide to an Early Death)
https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0Ga06vDZkvoQqEiYMMt7YVpdg#Mexicans_in_the_California_Mines,_1848-53
https://www.timothysnyder.org/books/bloodlands
https://www.babymed.com/info/eating-placenta-placentophagia (Discussion on whether eating placentas is cannibalism)
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/eating-placentas-cannibalism-recycling-or-health-food/ (Skeptical critique of placenta eating)
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17095605 (BBC Article on starvation)
Donnar Museum
Cookbook
VOX Article on Cannibalism
NPR Article: When People Ate People, A Strange Disease Emerged
2009 Movie on the Donnar Party (looks terrible lol)
Other movies that depict Cannibalism
Donnar Party Memorial site

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