1. Bear River By: Wakiya Shipman and Gage Newkirk

2. HISTORY IIt was inhabited by the shoshone people in the early 19 th century. TThere was an incident there where the United States Army slaughtered the shoshone people and it is now called the Bear River massacre.

3. Where They Lived TThey lived on the Mattole and Bear Rivers. TThey lived in teepees.

4. What is the Bear River? TThe Bear River is a river, approximately 350 miles (560 km) long, in southwestern Wyoming, southeastern Idaho, and northern Utah, in the United States. The largest tributary of the Great Salt Lake, it drains a mountainous area and farming valleys east of the lake and southwest of the Snake River Plane.

5. Ways of finding food… HHunting and agriculture, the coastal groups still relied much on fishing and shellfish gathering, drying the products for preservation on reed hurdles over an open fire or in the sun.

6. Types of Food

7. Weapons GGuns were regularly used instead of bows and arrows during the eighteenth century. Iron hatchets had likewise replaced wooden clubs.

8. Pictures of Weapons

9. Languages They Spoke TThe language they spoke was an Athapaskan language.

10. Maps

11. Map of Location

12. Trail of the Bear River Tribe

13. War TThey had many wars which involved 50 warriors. TThe warriors lived in Craven county Probably on the branch of the Neuse River.

14. Quote IIn response to the great threat this posed, the Creeks, Cherokee, and Chicasaw instituted policies of restricting land sales to the government