Bear Lake Class Cohort Grant Research Bibliography: Indigenous History

Elmer R. Smith, “An Indian burial, a barbed bone “projectile point” and accompanying artifacts from Bear Lake, Idaho.” Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, 1942. 970.1 Sm55in.

This small paper booklet contains an in-depth description of a Indigenous peoples’ burial found by Oliver Passey in Slights Canyon, near Bear Lake. The description explains the dimensions of this burial and the conditions the remains were found in. The booklet also has sketches of artifacts found in or around the burial. Such artifacts include stone awls, scrapers, knives, and projectile points.