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Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin

Index Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin

The Indigenous Peoples of the Great Basin are Native Americans of the northern Great Basin, Snake River Plain, and upper Colorado River basin. [1]

88 relations: Agriculture, American Indian boarding schools, Artesian aquifer, Bannock people, Basket, Bison, California, Chemehuevi, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Colorado River, Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, Cultural area, Cultural assimilation of Native Americans, Delta, Utah, Dominguez–Escalante expedition, Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation, Eastern Shoshone, Ely Shoshone Indian Reservation, Farmer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fremont culture, Ghost Dance, Goshute, Great Basin, Handbook of North American Indians, Horse, Hunter-gatherer, Idaho, Indian Reorganization Act, Indian reservation, Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975, Kaibab Indian Reservation, Kawaiisu, Lemhi Shoshone, Metate, Moapa Band of Paiute Indians, Mono people, Mormons, Native American self-determination, Native Americans in the United States, Nevada, Northern Paiute, Northern Shoshone, Nuclear family, Numic languages, Oregon, Pahvant, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, Peyote, Plains Indians, ..., Pottery, Poverty, Prophet, Railroad Valley, Reservoir, Rocky Mountains, Ruby Valley, San Pitch Utes, Shivwits Band of Paiutes, Shoshone, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Skull Valley Indian Reservation, Smithsonian Institution, Snake River Plain, Southern Paiute, Southern Ute Indian Reservation, Spain, Substance abuse, Suicide, Sun Dance, Timbisha, Timpanogos, Tukudeka, Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation, Uncompahgre Ute, Unemployment, Utah, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Ute people, Washington, D.C., Washoe people, Western Shoshone, White River Utes, Winnowing, Wodziwob, Wovoka, Wyoming. Expand index (38 more) »

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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American Indian boarding schools

Native American boarding schools, also known as Indian Residential Schools were established in the United States during the late 19th and mid 20th centuries with a primary objective of assimilating Native American children and youth into Euro-American culture, while at the same time providing a basic education in Euro-American subject matters.

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Artesian aquifer

An artesian aquifer is a confined aquifer containing groundwater under positive pressure.

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Bannock people

The Bannock tribe were originally Northern Paiute but are more culturally affiliated with the Northern Shoshone.

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Basket

A basket is a container which is traditionally constructed from stiff fibers, which can be made from a range of materials, including wood splints, runners, and cane.

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Bison

Bison are large, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Chemehuevi

The Chemehuevi are an indigenous people of the Great Basin.

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Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas

Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas is based upon cultural regions, geography, and linguistics.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).

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Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation

The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation is located in Juab County, Utah, Tooele County, Utah, and White Pine County, Nevada, United States.

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Cultural area

In anthropology and geography, a cultural region, cultural sphere, cultural area or culture area refers to a geographical area with one relatively homogeneous human activity or complex of activities (culture).

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Cultural assimilation of Native Americans

The cultural assimilation of Native Americans was an assimilation effort by the United States to transform Native American culture to European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920.

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Delta, Utah

Delta is a city in Millard County, Utah, United States.

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Dominguez–Escalante expedition

The Domínguez–Escalante expedition was a Spanish journey of exploration conducted in 1776 by two Franciscan priests, Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, to find an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to their Roman Catholic mission in Monterey, on the coast of northern California.

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Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation

The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Western Shoshone, based in central Nevada in the high desert Railroad Valley, in northern Nye County.

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Eastern Shoshone

Eastern Shoshone are Shoshone who primarily live in Wyoming and in the northeast corner of the Great Basin where Utah, Idaho and Wyoming meet and are in the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People.

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Ely Shoshone Indian Reservation

The Ely Shoshone Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation for the Ely Shoshone Tribe of Nevada, Shoshone people, in and near the south side of the city of Ely in south-central White Pine County, Nevada.

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Farmer

A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Fremont culture

The Fremont culture or Fremont people is a pre-Columbian archaeological culture which received its name from the Fremont River in the U.S. state of Utah, where the culture's sites were discovered by local indigenous peoples like the Navajo and Ute.

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Ghost Dance

The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah, also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) was a new religious movement incorporated into numerous American Indian belief systems.

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Goshute

The Goshutes are a tribe of Western Shoshone Native Americans.

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Great Basin

The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.

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Handbook of North American Indians

The Handbook of North American Indians is a monographic series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in Americanist studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 1978.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''.

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Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.

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Idaho

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.

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Indian Reorganization Act

The Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934, or the Wheeler-Howard Act, was U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of Native Americans (known in law as American Indians or Indians).

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Indian reservation

An Indian reservation is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a federally recognized Native American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located.

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Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975

The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (Public Law 93-638) authorized the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and some other government agencies to enter into contracts with, and make grants directly to, federally recognized Indian tribes.

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Kaibab Indian Reservation

The Kaibab Indian Reservation the home of the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Southern Paiutes.

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Kawaiisu

The Kawaiisu (pronounced: ″ka-wai-ah-soo″) are a Native American group which lives in the southern California Tehachapi Valley and across the Tehachapi Pass in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains to the north, toward Lake Isabella and Walker Pass.

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Lemhi Shoshone

The Lemhi Shoshone are a tribe of Northern Shoshone, called the Akaitikka, Agaidika, or "Eaters of Salmon."Murphy and Murphy, 306 The name "Lemhi" comes from Fort Lemhi, a Mormon mission to this group.

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Metate

A metate or metlatl (or mealing stone) is a type or variety of quern, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds.

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Moapa Band of Paiute Indians

The Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation are a federally recognized tribe of Paiute, who live in southern Nevada on the Moapa River Indian Reservation.

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Mono people

The Mono are a Native American people who traditionally live in the central Sierra Nevada, the Eastern Sierra (generally south of Bridgeport), the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin.

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Mormons

Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity, initiated by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.

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Native American self-determination

Native American self-determination refers to the social movements, legislation, and beliefs by which the tribes in the United States exercise self-governance and decision making on issues that affect their own people.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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Northern Paiute

Northern Paiute is a Numic tribe that has traditionally lived in the Great Basin in eastern California, western Nevada, and southeast Oregon.

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Northern Shoshone

Northern Shoshone are Shoshone of the Snake River Plain of southern Idaho and the northeast of the Great Basin where Idaho, Wyoming and Utah meet.

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Nuclear family

A nuclear family, elementary family or conjugal family is a family group consisting of two parents and their children (one or more).

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Numic languages

Numic is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Pahvant

Pahvant (Pavant, Parant, Pahva-nits) was a band of Ute people that lived in present-day Utah.

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Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah

The Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah is a federally recognized tribe of Southern Paiute and Ute Indians in southwestern Utah.

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Peyote

Lophophora williamsii or peyote is a small, spineless cactus with psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline.

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Plains Indians

Plains Indians, Interior Plains Indians or Indigenous people of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have traditionally lived on the greater Interior Plains (i.e. the Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies) in North America.

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Pottery

Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up pottery wares, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain.

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Poverty

Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.

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Prophet

In religion, a prophet is an individual regarded as being in contact with a divine being and said to speak on that entity's behalf, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.

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Railroad Valley

Railroad Valley is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins in the Tonopah Basin and is ~80 miles (130 km) long north-south and up to 20 miles (32 km) wide, with some southern areas running southwest to northeast.

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Reservoir

A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Ruby Valley

Ruby Valley is a large basin located in south-central Elko and northern White Pine counties in the northeastern section of the state of Nevada in the western United States.

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San Pitch Utes

The San Pitch Utes (Sahpeech, Sanpeech, Sanpits, San-pitch) were members of a band of Ute people that lived in the Sanpete Valley and Sevier River Valley and along the San Pitch River.

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Shivwits Band of Paiutes

The Shivwits Band of Paiutes are a band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, a federally recognized tribe of Southern Paiutes located in southwestern Utah.

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Shoshone

The Shoshone or Shoshoni are a Native American tribe with four large cultural/linguistic divisions.

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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)

The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.

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Skull Valley Indian Reservation

The Skull Valley Indian Reservation is located in Tooele County, Utah, United States, approximately southwest of Salt Lake City.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Snake River Plain

gorges, such as this one near Twin Falls, Idaho The Snake River Plain is a geologic feature located primarily within the U.S. state of Idaho.

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Southern Paiute

Southern Paiute is a tribe of Native Americans that have lived in the Colorado River basin of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, and southern Utah.

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Southern Ute Indian Reservation

The Southern Ute Indian Reservation is a Native American reservation in southwestern Colorado near the northern New Mexico state line.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Substance abuse

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is a patterned use of a drug in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or others, and is a form of substance-related disorder.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Sun Dance

The Sun Dance is a ceremony practiced by some Indigenous people of United States of America and Canada, primarily those of the Plains cultures.

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Timbisha

The Timbisha ("rock paint") are a Native American tribe federally recognized as the Death Valley Timbisha Shoshone Band of California.

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Timpanogos

The Timpanogos (Timpanog, Utahs or Utah Indians) were a tribe of Native Americans who inhabited a large part of central Utah—particularly, the area from Utah Lake eastward to the Uinta Mountains and south into present-day Sanpete County.

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Tukudeka

The Tukudeka or Mountain Sheepeaters are a band of Eastern Shoshone, who later joined the Northern Shoshone.

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Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation

The Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation is located in northeastern Utah, United States.

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Uncompahgre Ute

The Uncompahgre Ute is a band of the Ute, a Native American tribe located in Colorado and Utah.

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Unemployment

Unemployment is the situation of actively looking for employment but not being currently employed.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation

The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uinta and Ouray Reservation is a Federally Recognized Tribe of Indians in northeastern Utah.

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Ute Mountain Ute Tribe

The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897.

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Ute people

Ute people are Native Americans of the Ute tribe and culture and are among the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Washoe people

The Washoe are a Great Basin tribe of Native Americans, living near Lake Tahoe at the border between California and Nevada.

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Western Shoshone

The Western Shoshone comprise several Shoshone tribes that are indigenous to the Great Basin and have lands identified in the Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863.

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White River Utes

White River Utes are a Native American band, made of two earlier bands, the Yampa from the Yampa River Valley and the Parianuche Utes who lived along the Grand Valley in Colorado and Utah.

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Winnowing

Wind winnowing is an agricultural method developed by ancient cultures for separating grain from chaff.

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Wodziwob

Wodziwob (died c. 1872) was a Paiute prophet who performed the first Ghost Dance rituals around 1869.

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Wovoka

Wovoka (c. 1856 - September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Paiute religious leader who founded a second episode of the Ghost Dance movement.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Great_Basin

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