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The Ute Bear Dance emerged on the Great Basin. The Sun Dance and Peyote religion flourished in the Great Basin, as well. [2] In 1930, the Ely Shoshone Reservation was established, followed by the Duckwater Indian Reservation in 1940. [12] Conditions for the Native American population of the Great Basin were erratic throughout the 20th century.
Native American tribes that inhabited the Great Basin were divided between the "Great Basin" and, in the Colorado Desert region, the "California" tribal classifications. There has been a succession of indigenous peoples of the Great Basin. Paleo-Indian habitation by the Great Basin tribes began as early as 10,000 B.C. . [29]
In order to draw upon the powers of nature and the universe, shamans would frequently visit sacred sites. These sites can be found throughout the Great Basin and the American West. They include "mountains, caves, waterways, and unique geological formations." [16] One such site is called the Parowan Gap and is sacred to the Paiute (see image).
The Shoshone are a Native American tribe that originated in the western Great Basin and spread north and east into present-day Idaho and Wyoming. By 1500, some Eastern Shoshone had crossed the Rocky Mountains into the Great Plains.
The Goshute are an indigenous peoples of the Great Basin, and their traditional territory extends from the Great Salt Lake (Goshute: Tĭ'tsa-pa - "Fish Water" or Pi'a-pa - "Great Water") to the Steptoe Range in Nevada, and south to Simpson Springs (Goshute term: Pi'a-pa or Toi'ba).
They lived in the Rocky Mountains during the 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition and adopted Plains horse culture in contrast to Western Shoshone that maintained a Great Basin culture. [3] The Eastern Shoshone primarily settled on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, after their leader, Washakie signed the Fort Bridger Treaty in 1868. [4]
It was one of the few traditions her mother recalled from a time before the government forced her to attend a boarding school established to assimilate Native American children into white society.
The Chemehuevi (/ ˌ tʃ ɛ m ɪ ˈ w eɪ v i / CHEH-mih-WAY-vee) are an indigenous people of the Great Basin.They are the southernmost branch of Southern Paiute. [3] [4] [5] Today, Chemehuevi people are enrolled in the following federally recognized tribes: