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Understanding systems effects (see Donella Meadows Thinking in Systems ) is hugely important for understanding complex interactions.

Unlike the settlements in Greenland, L'Anse aux Meadows was just an exploration base that never developed into a permanent settlement.

There are multiple archaeological proof of Norse presence in Canada - L'Anse aux Meadows is the remains of a whole village.

For instance The Bachar Yerian [1] in Tuolumne Meadows (the Yosemite high country).

Vikings landed in L'anse aux Meadows Newfoundland over 1,000 years ago.

The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.

Historically animals like deer kept meadows open.

Without any human intervention, here is a forest with tall, straight trees that are rather widely spaced, plenty of sunlight and lots of open, grassy meadows.

Demographers are extrapolating statistical models in which past data observations have been fitted to curves, while the systems modelers such as Meadows are looking at dynamics between multiple real-world factors and looking at their interactions and consequences.

Tangentially, you may be interested in Donella Meadows' "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System" [1].

Don't forget about the Mountain Meadows Massacre which occurred in the larger context of the "Utah War" about 20 years after your referenced events.

This was also informed by me reading Nassim Taleb's book "Antifragile" as well as "Thinking in Systems: A Primer" by the (late) Donella Meadows.

In Denver's Park Meadows mall, on Sunday they have a big sign saying the State of Colorado prohibits them from "selling", so come on in and sell it to yourself.

For example, systems dynamics is also quite interesting; see Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows.

And, to go one step further, the Viking settlement on the northern tip of western Newfoundland, L'Anse aux Meadows.

Meadows reference, she was the ultimate growth hacker decades before the term existed.