The Great Basin
From California To the Rocky Mountains
The Varied Environment
The Great Basin consisted of deserts, mountains, flats and plateaus. This gave the people a good amount of space to hunt for small game, snakes, rats, prairie dogs and grasshoppers, get fruits, corn, nuts, berries, grub, acorns and roots and this environment also gave them the opportunity to fish. The climate was warm which allowed people to wear loincloths, skirt and often go naked. Their homes varied from tepees and lodges in the mountains to wickiups and underground dwellings. The warm climate also gave people the resources they needed to make beautiful baskets. These people got resources from the land to make canoes, baskets and other tools made from things like grass, hide, rock and bone.
Yummies
Corn was a very popular food in ancient times and acorns were these peoples staple food. These people also enjoyed fruits, small game, fish, other nuts and berries.
Fasion
Loincloths and skirts like these are very comfortable in the warm climate. And some people, when it got extremely hot, would casually go around wearing no cloths.
Homes
The people of this territory that lived closer to the mountains lived in homes such as tepees and lodges, while the people closer by California lived houses like wickiups or underground dwellings.
Tools
The resources available to the people in this region include bone, stone, grass, wood, hide, gut-twine and rocks. The people in this region were not that active in war, so the hunt tools were usually used on small animals and fish.
Art
These baskets were used to carry things, but they were also known to be beautiful pieces of native art. The Yokut tribe of this territory is well known for these outstanding pieces of art.
Map
The Great Basin, Plateau and California cultural areas that this flyer is about include the blue, purple and yellow areas on this map, also they may be recognizable by their numbers' 1, 2 and 5.