Koop Ticutta

The Koop Ticutta, or Ground Squirrel Eaters, were a Northern Paiute people of the Humboldt Lake country. Their homeland included wetlands at the end of the Humboldt River and hunting and gathering places in the surrounding mountains. Above the lake lies Lovelock Cave, remembered in Paiute tradition as the scene of a battle involving the Koop Ticutta and other people. When American explorers entered the region in the 1830s, the wetlands still supported Northern Paiute villages.