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"During the Bear River Massacre in 1863, around 200 U.S. Army soldiers killed
at least 350 Shoshone men, women and children. It was the largest massacre of
Native Americans in U.S. history, with some estimates saying the death toll was
closer to 490.
Now, the restoration of Wuda Ogwa, the site near Preston, Idaho, along the
banks of the Bear River and where the Bear River Massacre happened, is underway
by the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation.
“Cultural healing is the reason we started … to heal that land there,” said
Brad Parry, vice chairman of the Northwestern Band of Shoshone and natural
resources program manager. “At the time we camped there in 1863, it was
free-flowing.”
His ancestors could catch trout in the Bear River and hunt deer, elk and all
sorts of waterfowl nearby, Parry said.
“We want to start that place over as a happy place, as a place you want to
visit for the right reasons,” he said. “Right now, it’s a graveyard. It’s a
cemetery. It’s a place where something extremely bad happened.”
In 2018, the tribe Great Salt Lake Collaborative. around the massacre site and
is in the process of acquiring more. To restore the site to how it was in 1863
and before, the Great Salt Lake Collaborative. and written accounts of the site
conditions, Parry said.
The project includes stream restoration efforts, digging a new wetlands pond,
removing invasive species and planting native plants, he said. The construction
of stream restoration structures along the Battle Creek Tributary are expected
to begin in May 2024."
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