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Reclaiming Bear River | WILD HOPE

17m 25s

Over 150 years after suffering the worst massacre in U.S. history, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has purchased their ancestral homeland — called Wuda Ogwa, or Bear River — with a vision to return it back to nature.

Aired: 05/11/25

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