eo Up The Land \y i ilemette The overlanders’ settled in Wilmette Valley of Oregon and their new ee. Once’they reached here ete = was €ar from over. iven one Square mile of et land. it the hdd to stake a claim by building a e on their. ore wi 5h 4 months of arriving in ery member of the Fam saris cut down trees and build +4 cabin. Once the house was bui oe was Menitare to be made, and land to be cleared forcu Native Americans The Native Americans were actually £riendly more often than not. | Encounters most often involved simple trades and there were very few of the ioneers that actually died at the ands of the Native Americans in the So-called massacres. The most notable of the massacres was the Gratten Massacre. A cow wandered from an emigrant wagon train anda . nearby Sioux village found tt and ate it. ‘Twenty-eight men lead by Lt. Gratten set out to make the Sioux Indians pay for their mistake. When the troops got to the Sioux village, the Indians realized their mistake and offered a horse tn. return. Gratten ordered his men to Sire on the tribe. The Indians were ordered by their chief not to right back, but Gratten turned and shot the chief. This lead to an all out war with the Sioux Indians thaf went on for decades.