All of the following factors resulted in many Indian deaths on the Great Plains EXCEPT:
A) the spread of smallpox.
B) starvation caused by decimation of the buffalo herds.
C) Indians always refusing to move to new land.
D) the Indians' lack of immunities to new diseases.

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Indians did not always refuse to move to new land. Many were forced to relocate due to U.S. government policies, such as the Indian Removal Act of 1830, but their high mortality rate was more directly caused by factors like disease, loss of food sources, and violence rather than a blanket refusal to move.

All of the Following Factors Resulted in Many Indian Deaths