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Visions of Human Life in an Arid Landscape Visions of Human Life in an Arid Landscape
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Defining the Great Basin as a Region and a Culture Area Defining the Great Basin as a Region and a Culture Area
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Contact and the Changing Native Great Basin Contact and the Changing Native Great Basin
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The United States’ Conquest of the Great Basin The United States’ Conquest of the Great Basin
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Living in a Colonized World Living in a Colonized World
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Native Sovereignty and Native Land Native Sovereignty and Native Land
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Great Basin Sources and Scholarship Great Basin Sources and Scholarship
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Notes Notes
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Bibliography Bibliography
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19 The Great Basin
Get accessGregory E. Smoak is Director of the American West Center and Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah. Hes is the author of Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century(2006). He is currently completing an environmental history of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument for the National Park Service
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Published:07 April 2016
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Abstract
The Native peoples of the Great Basin live on some of the most arid and sparsely populated lands in the United States. The unforgiving basin environment has long influenced scholarly and popular perceptions of Great Basin Indians. This chapter is intended to historicize peoples who have too been naturalized. Spanish colonization in New Mexico transformed Native life in the Great Basin before the arrival of permanent Euro-American settlement. The subsequent conquest of the Great Basin took place largely through the actions of nonstate power interests—miners, overland emigrants, and the Mormon Church. The incorporation of wage labor was a common adaptation to conquest. Because many basin peoples lacked established treaty rights and/or reservation land bases, they struggled throughout the course of the twentieth century to reestablish sovereignty over their homelands.
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