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Who were the Donners?

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The Donner party was a group of American settlers who are known as cannibals. Their party became stranded in a harsh winter in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the group was forced to turn to cannibalism to survive.

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The Donners were a family of settlers that traveled with the Reeds and some other families to California but were late in reaching the mountains. They were trapped by the snow and some of them had to resort to cannibalism to stay alive.

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