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I was just watching a YouTube video about the Donner Party, in which they say some of the only people in the group who refrained from cannibalism were Native American guides. What tribe were these guides? & is there a cultural explanation for why they were more reluctant than the white pioneers?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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