Great Basin

Agricultural communities of the Fremont culture had disappeared by the fourteenth century. Survival has depended on fishing and hunting, primarily for small game and other edible creatures, and on seasonal foraging migrations from mountain ridges to lowland marshes in search of food, water, firewood, and material with which to make baskets and other utensils. Before contact with Europeans people often dispersed into small groups, especially family units or bands of families, convening with...