Unsettling the Bear River Massacre from within Indigenous Worldview and Ceremonial Process
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On a cold January morning in 1863, a Mormon scout led the U.S. Cavalry to Bia Ogai, the winter camp of the Northwest Band Shoshone near what is now Preston, Idaho. There, the largest and most brutal massacre and rape of Native persons in United States history occurred. Yet somehow, that incomprehensible crime against humanity was erased from history. Nothing was published about the Bear River Massacre for 120 years. And, to this day, the unburied remains of hundreds of slaughtered Shoshone men, women, and children lie in privately owned farmland along the banks of the Bear River. There will be an outdoor Memorial Ceremony at the battle site north of Preston, Idaho on January 29, 2018.
Location: ISU, College of Technology Roy F. Christensen Building, Room 108