Gidi Tika

The Gidi Tika were a Northern Paiute people whose name refers to eating groundhogs or marmots. Their country included Surprise Valley, Goose Lake and the Warner Valley, along the western edge of the northern Great Basin. Lakes and marshes lay between dry ranges, and families used their resources alongside the plants and game of the surrounding hills. The Gidi Tika shared the wider basin with neighbouring Paiute communities whose own territories extended across valleys and mountain slopes.