Shoshone Bannock Treaty or Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868 signed

This treaty council established Fort Hall Shoshone Bannock reservation (Pohoko’ikkatee) in Idaho near Pocatello. Historically significant because along with the terrible 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie (Lakota, Dakota, Arapaho), it was among the last treaties signed before the 1871 treaty prohibition. It established a reservation for the Shoshone and Bannock peoples and the Wind River Reservation. Prior to this treaty, some Shoshone people led by Tondzaosha (Pocatello) had led attacks against settlers in an attempt to get them to leave their territory. In particular, Shoshone people were affected by gold and silver rushes as well as Mormom incursions into their territory after the founding of Salt Lake City in 1847. Shoshone also suffered a massacre at Bear River on January 29, 1863, the largest mass murder of Native Americans by the US military with one estimate being 493 people killed. Some residents of Fort Hall went on to fight in what became known as the Bannock war.