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DESCRIPTION:Bear River Massacre —152nd Anniversary on Jan 29th, 2015\nI call upon You 
 In the name of the tribe known as the Northwestern Band of Shoshone (NWB): 
 My soul calls out for a National Moment of Silence and Remembrance for a 
 people decimated one brutal winter morning in 1863. One brutal winter 
 morning like so many others…\nAre You listening?\nTo speak and remember 
 acts barely spoken of; to honor Life and the ties of all indigenous people 
 to ancestral lands, to reach for tendrils of humanity amidst the 
 carnage…\nHow is it truly that the largest slaughter of Native Indigenous 
 people in the history of the United States remains so little 
 remembered?\nIn solemn reflection, think on January 29th and on the fact of 
 this now silent Shoshone winter home, rendered holy: what of reverence, not 
 to mention atonement, is there to learn and pass on? In this, the largest 
 and deadliest clash of cultures on U.S. soil enacted just a few miles north 
 of Preston, Idaho (30 minutes north of Logan, Utah by car) at the mouth of 
 Battle Creek where it joins the Bear River in a small canyon used by the 
 Shoshone as their “winter encampment with willows and hot springs”, 
 over 490 Northwestern Shoshone Indians were set upon and killed by the 
 militia of the U.S. Army’s Third California Volunteers, under the command 
 of immigrant Colonel Patrick E. Connor. At day’s end, only five of the 
 many hundreds of Shoshone Native Indigenous peoples remained.\nA mile or 
 two up the road from Preston on your right you will find a nondescript Hwy 
 91 sign pointing the way to the Bear River Massacre interactive center. A 
 story of conflict as old as “us” and “them” was carried out in real 
 time in this little-embraced slice of holy land: the land will call out to 
 some of you, to others it will scream. This year I call on Native and 
 non-Native peoples throughout our world to reflect and gather in 
 commemoration and ask whether the innocuous sounding “Manifest Destiny” 
 drilled into the minds of U.S. school children everywhere was morally worth 
 the human price in barbarity and pillage paid on the shores of the Bear 
 River.\nWe are all The People. This year, there are various ways to 
 remember what has been forgotten here: a moment of silence for some, for 
 others, a pilgrimage of healing and kindness to share and participate in 
 the anniversary of the Bear River Massacre.\n\nBattle Creek Calling Me\nmy 
 soul is screaming\nmy soul is screaming\nmy soul is screa-ming\nnow shun 
 silence, ban ignorance, and foul conqueror mode\nBattle Creek is calling, 
 do you hear it?\nBattle Creek flows out, bearing witness for the 
 dead…\nReMemBer. And Live.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/15/18766927.php
SUMMARY:Bear River Massacre —152nd Anniversary on Jan 29th, 2015
LOCATION:Heading North on Highway 91 (30 to 45 minutes north of Logan), look for 
 historical rock monuments for more meeting information: 1st site: 
 historical rock monument is in Preston on right side of road; 2nd site: 
 there's also an Interactive Center (no buildings, a parking lot and some 
 posters outside) off off HWY 91 just passed Bear River (look quick for 
 small sign on right side of road), 3rd site, heading South on Hwy 91, 
 there's a small stone monument overlooking where the cavalry crossed the 
 river
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/15/18766927.php
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