Deadliest slaughter of Native Americans in US history: The 1863 Bear River massacre that left hundreds of Shoshone dead and a sacred land forever changed
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…
The Times of India ·