Massacres & mob attacks
Bear River Massacre
29 January 1863Boa Ogoi, on the Bear River near Preston, ID
California Volunteers attacked a Northwestern Shoshone winter village at dawn and killed at least 250 people, most of them women, children and elders. It is the deadliest massacre of Native people in United States history, and the least known.
- People killed
- 250–400
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