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Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin Map showing the distribution of Numic languages and major indigenous groups of the Great Basin region in the western United States. The area outlined in red includes territories of groups such as the Shoshone, Paiute, Ute, Gosiute, Washo, Mono, Panamint Shoshone, Chemehuevi, and Shoshone-Bannock, with major geographic features like Lake Tahoe, the Great Salt Lake, and the Colorado River also labeled. Dwellings Rock art Ghost Dance
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Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin
Kaylei Weed (left) of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe with her two sons and mother, Elaine...
Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-highsm-33997)
Numic languages and Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin
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Dwellings
A wickiup made of brushwood and blankets.
Edward S. Curtis Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-49232)
Rock art
Petroglyphs located in the Paria Canyon–Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area, near the...
© Carol Jean Smetana
Ghost Dance
Ghost Dance of the Oceti Sakowin, print from a wood engraving, 1891.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. cph 3a51166)
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