Image gallery for: Iesuonsnepard apparently native american vibes were in contact with the donner party and altered them food when they saw the colonists were starving and the donner party turned them down and decided to go the whole cannibalism route instead nesuansnepam until now the native american perspedive has been lea out of the telling of the donne tragedy not because the wei mel ti did not remember the pioneers but because they were never asked or perhaps were not ready to share their oral tndition recalls the starving strangers who camped in an area that was unsuitable for that time of year taking pity on the pioneers the northem washoe attempted to feed them leaving rabbit meat and wild potatoes near the amps another account states that they tn‘ed to bring the donner patty a deer amass but were shot at as they approached later some wel mel ti observed the migrants eating human remains fearing for their fives the area s native inhabitants continued to watch the strangers but avoided futther contact these stories and the ardmeologiat evidence that appeals to support them certainly oompticated my interpretation of the donner patty event the migrants at alder creek were not surviving in the mountains alone the northem washoe were them and they had tried to help source tfw a group of unptepered strangers show up refuse the food you offe them start fuddng cannibalizing each other and then call you the savages