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A Wyoming town massacred its Chinese workers 140 years ago. Descendants returned to dig for the Chinatown ‘burn layer.’

The massacre was one of the most violent bouts of anti-Chinese violence in U.S. history.

(Jenna McMurtry | KHOL) Grinnell College students Jorge Salinas and Julia Ghorai are deep in the trenches of the Rock Springs dig site. Professor Laura Ng and assisting archaeologist Paul Hoornbeek advise from above, in what could be the last dig at the site, given the dwindling federal support for archaeology.