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Show The Nuwuvi 7 Nuwuvi once hunted. Amid the forests are clear, blue lakes filled with fish that were caught by the Nuwuvi. The Nuwuvi lived and hunted among the plateaus as far north as Fish Lake and the Tushar Mountains to the northeast of Beaver, Utah. On the edges of these plateaus are magnificent red and yellow cliffs. Cutting through them are deep, beautiful canyons. The Nuwuvi wandered in areas that include present-day Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Grand Canyon National Parks. They viewed these places with reverence for the sheer power of the land. West of the plateaus of Utah and Arizona is the Virgin River. It runs from its eastern beginnings on the edge of the Markagunt Plateau toward the southwest, until it joins the Colorado River in Southern Nevada. It goes through the eastern end of one of the driest areas in North America. The green valleys of the river's many tributaries are havens in the desert. On the banks of streams like Ash Creek, Santa Clara River, and Muddy Creek, all of which flow into the Virgin, the Nuwuvi had many farms and gardens. To the north and west of those streams is the Great Basin. Within it all streams drain inward rather than in the general direction of the ocean. This huge basin was inhabited by several tribes, almost all of whom were related speakers of Shoshonean languages. The Nuwuvi were firmly in control of the southern end of this basin. The Great Basin is broken up by rugged mountain chains. The larger chains are forested and hide game. These mountains were hunting areas for the Nuwuvi in Nevada in the same way the plateaus were for those in Utah. In both places there were pine forests where the essential food, pine nuts, were gathered. Between the mountain ranges are desert valleys. Nuwuvi gathered desert vegetation and hunted small game like rabbits in these valleys. At the feet of the mountains are often springs from which small streams run. These streams sometimes disappear and reappear again and again as they cross the desert floors. The Nevada Nuwuvi had their campsites and, occasionally, their farms near the springs. Nuwuvi territory extended south along the Colorado River to the Cottonwood area. South of this area were the Mohaves, with whom the Nuwuvi occasionally fought. Only the Chemehuevis, a Nuwuvi-speaking band who had moved south, normally lived in peace with the Mohave. To the west, Nuwuvi lands extended into |
