The Northern Paiute people are a Numic tribe that has traditionally lived in the Great Basin region of the United States in what is now eastern California, western Nevada, and southeast Oregon. The Northern Paiutes' pre-contact lifestyle was well adapted to the harsh desert environment in which they lived. Each tribe or band occupied a specific territory, generally centered on a lake or wetland that supplied fish and waterfowl. Communal hunt drives, which often involved neighboring bands, would take rabbits and pronghorn from surrounding areas. Individuals and families appear to have moved freely among the bands.
Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute writer and lecturer
Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the basin of the Truckee River, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Reno, Nevada, United States.
The tufa formation that gives Pyramid Lake its name.
Aerial view from the south of the Truckee River where it drains to Pyramid Lake
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Tufa Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada, 1867
Sagebrush in bloom along lakeshore, October 2023