On a cold January morning in 1863, a Shoshone winter camp near the Bear River in present-day Idaho became the centre of a violent confrontation that continues to shape Indigenous memory more than a century later. The settlement, known to the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone as Boa Ogoi, was attacked by US military forces during a period of rising tensions between Native communities, settlers, and government authorities. Historians regard the attack as one of the deadliest massacres of Indigenous people in the American West during the nineteenth century.
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