Natives

The Washoe tribe was located around Lake Tahoe.  Washoe's lifestyle revolved around the environment of their land. This included animals, plants, and medicines. The most important thing to Washoe was their family. The family was anyone in their tribe or local groups. Creating different cultures and languages among the local groups. After the California Gold Rush, Washoe's way of life changed. Changing where they lived and how they survives in their homeland.

The Northern Paiute Live in western Nevada and Eastern California. They are widely known for digging for their wild food. The Northern Paiute also lived with the Shoshone tribe. After the California Gold Rush, the Norther Paiute's homeland was ruined by the immigrating people and all remaining food sources were gone. This evolved the Northern Paiute by obtaining firearms to fend off the remaining intruders.

The Southern Paiute homeland was the southwest desert. Their name "Paiute" comes from the preference for living by water.  Water was a very important factor in the way they lived and survived. Creating irrigation ditches, that would later be used by the Morons that took over the land. Keeping the Southern Paiute generation strong through storytelling and passing on the language "Ute" to younger generations.

The Shoshone homeland is in Eastern Nevada, Northwestern Utah, and Southeastern California. Shoshones are also known as snakes. The Shoshone was one of the Great Basin Tribes to acquire horses after the colonization of Nevada. The Shoshone tribe was also one of the guides of Lewis and Clark on their expedition.