The Chemehuevi are an indigenous people of the Great Basin. They are the southernmost branch of Southern Paiute. Today, Chemehuevi people are enrolled in the following federally recognized tribes:Colorado River Indian Tribes
Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi Reservation
Morongo Band of Mission Indians
Cabazon Band of Mission Indians
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians
Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians of California
McKinley Fisher, a Chemehuevi man employed by the Indian Service at Colorado Agency, Arizona in 1957.
Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin
The Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin are Native Americans of the northern Great Basin, Snake River Plain, and upper Colorado River basin. The "Great Basin" is a cultural classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas and a cultural region located between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, in what is now Nevada, and parts of Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. The Great Basin region at the time of European contact was ~400,000 sq mi (1,000,000 km2). There is very little precipitation in the Great Basin area which affects the lifestyles and cultures of the inhabitants.
Ute chief Severo and his family 1899
Shoshone Indian and his horse
Fremont culture petroglyphs of big horn sheep, Nine Mile Canyon, Utah
Sarah Winnemucca a Northern Paiute writer and activist