Dave Lundgren

https://www.idahostatejournal.com/opinion/columns/local-history-about-pocatello-is-wrong/article_e6706311-37bb-5099-90fa-6c599955093f.html?fbclid=IwAR0oF6CJ_mXID_I8sIiPvhh2AtAuQXVEc8-MEWy-vR7B52TV4NmnjCW1GQU

Dave Lundgren is a retired tribal attorney who represented Indian tribes and tribal entities throughout the United States. While doing historical research in the mid-1980s, Dave uncovered inconsistencies in historical accounts of emigrant massacres along the Oregon Trail that did not reflect official governmental records. In recent years, he analyzed those records and books on the local history in southern Idaho and what he found has profound modern-day implications. The accounts revealed a coordinated propaganda campaign, supported by entrenched institutionalized racism, designed to hide the identity of the real culprits of the terrorist attacks. The propaganda is pervasive. His book, Massacre Rocks: A Campaign of Deception, traces the history and the continuing campaign of hate and deception in southern Idaho.

The small roadside sign along the highway at the site of the Bear River Massacre, the largest massacre of Native Americans in this country's history, merely alerts travelers to a "Point of Interest" without any detail. On the other hand, Idaho's Massacre Rocks State Park, where white emigrants were murdered along the Oregon Trail, has large signs along the freeway that perpetuate the myth that Indians were the killers. They were not, but the Northern Shoshoni paid the ultimate price for the fraud.