Idaho Battles 1: Massacre at Bear River

This was the biggest massacre in the history of Indian Wars. Just days after the Emancipation Proclamation, General Conner took about 400 Cavalry troopers from Utah up to Bear River (in modern day Idaho) and attacked an encampment of about 400 Indians. 200 were warriors that for two hours held off the assualts by the superior foe. While the attacks were going, the indians kept saying in english "Come on you Californian sons of----!"
They ran out of ammo after a while and as they were fleeing, scout Porter Rockwell led about 100 cavalry troopers armed with Henry Reapeting rifles to the other side of this pass the Indians were defending and ambushed them. Only 30 out of the 400 Indians were spared. The reason why it didn't make the newspapers as a big deal was it was right after the Emancipation Proclamation.

It was a real tragedy, some of these Indians were just women and kids.

I already met a bunch of Indians in my life, most of them were really friendly and generous as long as you were honnest with them.

There's also an Indian settlement in my hometown, it's known as the Huron Village.

I've never heard about this before, but I'm not from Idaho. Was this a warring tribe of Indians? Even so, Indians shouldn't exactly expect much mercy.

I believe it was Cheyenne. I'll have to look it up.

There you go.