Nuwuvi

The Nuwuvi, or Southern Paiute, lived in small communities across the Colorado River basin in southern Nevada, northern Arizona and southern Utah. They farmed floodplains using reservoirs and irrigation ditches, growing crops including maize and beans.

In 1776 the Franciscan explorers Domínguez and Escalante met Southern Paiute people while seeking a land route to California. From about 1830 traders used the Old Spanish Trail through the region to connect New Mexico with California.