THE GREAT BASIN

GEOGRAPHY

• Includes:Utah, Nevada, Colorado, California, Idaho Wyoming, Oregon
• dry, desert heat, snowy winters
• little amount of crops,
• salty, plants have little tolerance

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• moved around in bands
• 50 people each
• nomadic
• made most of each environment

PRE-COLOMBIAN LIFESTYLE

• food was scarce, had bands of families
• people w horses had more people in their families but they didnt form tribes
• families hunted together, lived in tepees

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• Numic speaking people
• used bows and arrows, stone knife, baskets, nets, lines and hooks
• hunted and gathered
• the tribes expanded to north and east of the basin

POST-COLOMBIAN LIFESTYLE

• After 10 years of the European settling, a reservation was established
• Europeans made schools to improve the edu
• limited the resources of the reservation
• maintained most of their religion and culture

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• one new religion was formed which was the Sun Dance and Peyote
• they brought about a Ghost Dance which was a way to talk to deceased loved people
• 2 more reservations were established after