The Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation has invited residents of Box Elder County to attend a ceremony honoring those who lost their lives in the Bear River Massacre The massacre, where an estimated 270 to 400 Shoshone were killed by the U.S. Army in January of 1863 near present-day Preston, Idaho, is the largest single loss of Native American lives west of the Mississippi during the nineteenth century. The ceremony will be held on Jan. 29 at 11 a.m. at the massacre memorial marker, which can be found on U.S. 91 at mile marker 131, two and a half...

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