Voice from the Dust

Authors

Darren Parry

Keywords

Shoshone, Bear River Massacre, BYU Studies

Abstract

Darren Parry is the chairman of the Northwest Band Tribal Council of the Shoshone Nation. On November 8, 2018, at Brigham Young University, he presented this talk for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies.

He is working to create the Boa Ogoi [Big River] Cultural Interpretive Center, an educational center that will share the story of the Bear River Massacre. On January 29, 1863, the U.S. Army attacked the Shoshone encamped at the Bear River, near present-day Preston, Idaho, and slaughtered 250 to 500 Shoshone people, including women and children. Public reports of this massacre were officially given by the U.S. Army and by Latter-day Saint settlers, but the Shoshone survivors also kept a history. Parry shares that history here.

Recommended Citation

Parry, Darren (2019) "Voice from the Dust," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 58: Iss. 3, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol58/iss3/3