The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone commemorated the Bear River Massacre's 160th anniversary Sunday with a public memorial that dozens braved icy winds to attend.

The Bear River Massacre of 1863 near what’s now Preston, Idaho, left roughly 350 members of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation dead, making it the bloodiest — and most deadly ...

Historic map of Bear River massacre site in Franklin County, Idaho. (Photo: Utah Historical Society) But it's difficult to imagine, looking around at what appears to be a simple plot of flattened ...

For members of the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation, Jan. 29 is an emotional day — a day of remembrance for the hundreds of ancestors who lost their lives 158 ...

People gather for the memorial ceremony of the Bear River Massacre on Monday near Preston. On Jan. 29, 1863 an estimated 400 members of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone ...

“This is the Bear River Massacre site,” he said, “what we call Wuda Ogwa, or Bear River.” Here, on Jan. 29, 1863, the U.S. Army murdered an estimated 400 Shoshone people, ...

Less remembered is his role in directing the Bear River Massacre on Jan. 29, 1863, when the men of the California Volunteers, stationed at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake City, butchered over 400 men ...

160 years ago, 200 soldiers of the Union army marched out from their fort at Salt Lake City Utah, and engaged the Native American Shoshone tribe at its winter encampment at Bear River in what is ...

KTVB-TV Boise. Bear River Massacre happened in Idaho 162 years ago. Posted: January 30, 2025 | Last updated: January 30, 2025. On Jan. 29, 1863, nearly 300 infantry and cavalry shot down the ...

During the site restoration, the Northwest Shoshone don't want to just honor their ancestors, but are also pulling out enough invasive species to give about 13,000 acre feet to the Great Salt Lake ...

The Bear River Massacre was the largest massacre of Native Americans in United States history. This is a graveyard. This is our Arlington Cemetery.