On a frigid morning in January 1863, the snow-covered banks of the Bear River in what is now southeast Idaho became the site of the deadliest mass killing of Indigenous people in United States history. While names like Wounded Knee and Sand Creek are etched into the American consciousness as symbols of frontier brutality, the […]

Main Facts: The Deadliest, Least-Remembered Chapter of the American Indian Wars On a bitterly cold morning in January 1863, a valley in what is now southeast Idaho became the site of the deadliest massacre of Indigenous people in the history of the United States. While names like Wounded Knee and Sand Creek are etched into […]