1. By: Rebecca and Joseph
• Great Basin
• The Nez Perce and the Umatilla tribes lived here
• It is located where the states
California, Nevada, Montana, and Utah are now
• The Great Basin is between 2 mountain ranges

2. Dwellings and Clothing
• Dwellings:
• The tribes lived
in homes called
Wickiup
• Wickiup is made
of plants and
reeds
• They are almost
like teepees
• Clothing:
• In hot weather men wore
breechcloths made of
animal skin or woven grass
or reeds
• When it is colder they
wore deerskin shirts
• Women wore dresses of
skins and later cotton

3. Acorns, Cypress,
Mesquite, and
Huckleberry
• Beavers, Big Horn
Sheep, Gray Wolf, and
Trout
•

4. Interesting Facts
• The tribes there use
bows and arrows
• Horses were very
important to people in
The Great Basin
• The first people got
there in 1730
• Horses helped them
catch animals for food
• Salmon and trout were
very important food to
them and caught them
in many different ways