2025

Friendships were renewed, oral history was told, and tribal youth had the opportunity to learn their languages at the Fourteenth Annual Return of the Boise Valley People event June 5 to 8, 2025 at Eagle Rock Park and Gowen Field. At the Thursday opening, Major General Timothy Donnellan said there’s a lot of history the military has between the original Boise Valley peoples. His objective as the Adjutant General of Idaho is to remember the past but focus on the future – things we can do together.

Brigette Scott McConville, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs said it’s her first time attending the event as the area in part of her tribe’s aboriginal territory. Her late grandmother Viola Kalama married to Nick Kalama and their relationship to Fort Hall was through Buffalo Horn and Oits – Bannock warriors.

Information about more interpretive signage in the city of Boise was included, youth were encouraged to do oral interviews with elders from Boise Valley tribes and the Nature Walk was again conducted for the youth.