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The Bear River Massacre was an attack by around 200 US soldiers that killed an estimated 250 to 400 children, women, and men at a Shoshone winter encampment on January 29, 1863. [ b ] Some sources describe it as the largest mass murder of Native Americans by the US military, [ 5 ] [ 4 ] [ 6 ] and largest single episode of genocide in US history ...
Bear River Massacre Site, near Preston, Idaho, is the site of the Bear River Massacre, in which a village of Shoshone Native Americans were attacked by the California Volunteers on January 29, 1863. Estimates of Shoshone casualties are as high as 384. [ 4 ]
The incident has come to be known as the Bear River massacre. The Bear River was surveyed through the Cache Divide for diversion and irrigation in 1868. [15] After the First transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, the Central Pacific was given over a third of the land in the Bear River Valley through land grants. [15]
Cache Valley (Shoshoni: Seuhubeogoi, “Willow Valley”) is a valley of northern Utah and southeast Idaho, United States, that includes the Logan metropolitan area. [1] The valley was used by 19th century mountain men and was the site of the 1863 Bear River Massacre.
The Box Elder Treaty is an agreement between the Northwestern Shoshone and the United States government, signed on July 30, 1863. It was adopted after a period of conflict which included the Bear River Massacre on January 29, 1863.
The Bear River massacre took place on January 29, 1863, on what was thought to be the boundary of Washington Territory and Utah Territory near the present-day city of Preston in Franklin County, Idaho.
The Bear River Massacre is the worst single loss for the Shoshone tribe, losing an estimated 250-400 men, women, and children. [9] After the 19th century, the groups of Shoshone began to diminish, leading them to join other groups or die off completely.
The Bear River Massacre of 1863 left only some 1250 Northwestern Shoshone alive. [3] After the 1867 establishment of Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho, most moved to the reservation. Two small bands led by the chiefs Sanpitch and Sagwitch stayed in northern Utah.