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Shoshone tribe plans to buy the Bear River land where a Utah militia slaughtered their ancestors 155 years ago

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The metal plaque reads: “Col. P.E. Connor, leading 300 California volunteers from Camp Douglas, Utah, against Bannock and Shoshone Indians guilty of hostile attacks on emigrants and settlers, engaged about 500 Indians of whom 250 to 300 were killed or incapacitated, including about 90 combatant women and children … 175 horses and much stolen property were recovered.”

(Brian Maffly | The Salt Lake Tribune) Darren Parry, chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, is leading efforts to commemorate the site of the 1863 Bear River Massacre outside Preston, Idaho.