The Great Basin and Plateau was a region west of the Great Plains and north of the Southwest. This region was almost completely made up of deserts. The climate was very dry, so food could be scarce at times. The Great Basin and Plateau indians lived in small homes made of sticks and brush. Popular wild game in this region were rabbits, moles, hawks, deer, coyotes, and small birds. A technique commonly used by the Paiute, a Great Basin tribe, to kill rabbits and moles was to flood the animal's burrow and shoot it when it came up. The most popular hunting tools in this region were the bow and arrow and jawbone tomahawks. The tribes of this region rarely waged war. The well known tribes of the Great Basin and Plateau were the Nez Perce, Paiute, Shoshone, Bannock, Mono, Lehmi, Ute, Chemehuevi, Washo, Klamath, Cayuse, Flathead, Yakima, Klikitat, Walla Walla, and Umatilla.
Paiute indians at their settlement
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