Bands of Shoshones from miles around had gathered in the valley sheltered by high bluffs to celebrate the warm dance and encourage an early arrival of spring. Many in the camp were already worried ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous book under the title Why We Can’t Wait.  Besides addressing the crime of slavery ...

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The language was spot-on. It showed that small village where they had a matriarch, who pretty much was the ruler of the small group of Shoshones that were there. And that makes perfect sense to us.

What happens is that in 1863, a federal army that is in territorial Utah slaughters about 400 Shoshones in what’s called the Bear River Massacre. It’s an absolutely terrible tragedy, and Sagwitch ...