A Shoshone-led restoration to bring water back to the Great Salt Lake is earning recognition

An effort to return a section of river to a state ancient Shoshone would have recognized is also helping the Great Salt Lake refill.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Super heated waters bubble to the surface on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, on the Bear River near Preston, Idaho, the site of the Bear River Massacre in which a village of Shoshone were attacked in 1863 and experienced the largest slaughter of Indigenous people in the nation’s history. The Shoshone acquired the site in 2018 with plans to turn it into a place of healing.

A Shoshone-led restoration to bring water back to the Great Salt Lake is earning recognition

An effort to return a section of river to a state ancient Shoshone would have recognized is also helping the Great Salt Lake refill.

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