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On this day in 1863, US Federal troops committed one of the deadliest massacres of Native Americans in US history when they shot, beat, ran down and stabbed, at least 250 starving Shoshone people in what is now Idaho. #BearRiverMassacre 
The Bear River Massacre was a surprise attack. The leaders of the Shoshone had failed to properly prepare for the attack because they believed they could negotiate a truce with the troops led Col. Patrick Edward Connor.
The massacre began at 6:00am on a frigid morning. Connor’s 200 men attacked without mercy for over four hours, charging and shooting at every one alive: men, women, and children, all were slaughtered.
