Reconciliation is about healing people, healing and transforming the land and water, correcting the stories told as part of the historical record, and protecting the bones of the ancestors
That kind of reconciliation is helping to restore the Great Salt Lake, whose brine shrimp feed much of the world, and to tell the story of a vital Shoshone wintering place that was abandoned after the US Army killed more than 400 people in four terrible hours in January 1863. Since the tribe bought the old wintering grounds in 2018, they have been transforming it into a place of environmental and cultural healing. This PBS video explains the story in detail.
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