Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin |This article may need to
be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia's quality
standards. (May 2009)| The Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin
are the Native American peoples of the Great Basin inhabited a
cultural region between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra
Nevada, in what is now Nevada, and parts of Oregon, California,
Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. There is very little precipitation in
the Great Basin area, which affects the lifestyles and cultures
of the inhabitants. The Great Basin is a cultural classification
of indigenous peoples of the Americas. While anthropologists can
point to many distinct peoples, they shared certain common
cultural elements that distinguished them from the surrounding
groups. All but the Washoe spoke Numic languages, and there was
considerable intermingling between the groups, which lived
peacefully and often shared common territories. They were
predominantly hunters and gatherers. Anthropologists use the
terms "Desert Archaic" or more