GET SMART! 3 Cool, Online Events Happening This Week
Don t miss these educational, online offerings this week. All the details are right here.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13TH: History Happy Hour - The Bear River Massacre (Online Event) - Free, online event from 6pm to 6:30pm hosted by Idaho State Museum and Idaho State Historical Society. Listen in as Darren Parry speaks with Alison Espindola (Events and Rentals Coordinator, Idaho State Museum) about his book, his people, and his hope for the future. In the early morning of January 29th 1863, at the Northwestern Shoshone winter village Boa Ogoi by the Utah-Idaho boundary line, Colonel Patrick Edward Connor led the 3rd Regiment California Volunteer Infantry to massacre more than 400 Shoshone men, women, and children. The Bear River Massacre, as it is known today, became the largest massacre of Native Americans in the West.