Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Recent Happennings: Bear River Massacre SIte

I have found a couple interesting articles in the desert News.  From a couple days ago is a story of a ceremony honoring those killed at the massacre, now thought to be 400 making this the largest slaughter of native Americans in U.S. history.  That means only about sixty to seventy Native Americans survived.  The deaths included many women and children, some of whom were killed in the cross fire, while others were deliberately killed.  The Northwest Shoshone now own a portion of the land upon which the battle took place.
The other is verification of the actual site of the massacre.  Generally this is just north of Preston Idaho along the Bear River.

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