Chris+Sellers


 * What is your //general// belief about who or what is most responsible for causing the conflict?**

I believe that the main person who caused all this was the whitman's because why would you help the native indians if you might have know that they would die off quicker then the white settlers because of there weak immune system.

**What is the relevant background information (i.e. who, what, when, where)?**

This event took place in the southeastern present day washington near walla walla. Whitman was the first one to lead a wagon train on the oregon trail. One of the only doctors in that area of where they were living.

**What were 3 factors that helped cause the conflict (politics, economics, geography, history)?**

At that time a flu broke out, he tried nursing the indians and other men, the idians died off quicker because they didn't have a excellent immune system like the other men.

**Explain why one factor is more important than the others.**

The fact that a flu broke out and it would affect weaker immune systems then the stronger immune system which then lead to the death of the whitman's when the idians died off first because of there weakness. That is more important then they were the lead train of the first wagon train.

**How could the conflict have been avoided?**

The conflict could have been avoided by the whitman's not treating the indians at all but then the idians would have attacked anyway for not helping out there tribe.


 * What sources of information have you used? **

[] [] [] Lambert, Dale A. Washington a State of Contrasts. East Wenatchee, WA: DMT, 2008