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Also known as: North American Great Basin Indian
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Catherine S. Fowler
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno. Author of In the Shadow of Fox Peak: An Ethnography of the Cattail-Eater Northern Paiute People of Stillwater Marsh; Tule Technology:...
Catherine S. Fowler,
Don D. Fowler
Mamie Kleberg Professor Emeritus of Anthropology & Historic Preservation, University of Nevada, Reno. Author of A Laboratory for Anthropology: Science and Romanticism in the American Southwest,...
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Great Basin Indian, member of any of the indigenous North American peoples inhabiting the traditional culture area comprising almost all of the present-day U.S. states of Utah and Nevada as well as substantial portions of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado and smaller portions of Arizona, Montana, and California. Great Basin topography includes many small basin and range systems and parts of the mountains, high desert, and low desert that define its external boundaries. The region’s northern basin and range systems transition rather gradually to the intermontane plateaus of Idaho and Oregon; likewise, the differences between the Great Basin Indians and ...(100 of 3637 words)

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