Pagayuat

The Pagayuat were a Goshute people associated with Otter Creek in the desert country west of the Great Salt Lake. Low valleys and mountain ranges alternate across this part of the Great Basin, with springs and streams scattered between them. Goshute families gathered seeds, roots and pine nuts and hunted game, travelling between the basin floors and mountain slopes as the seasons changed. Their routes connected communities across a homeland that reached into the neighbouring valleys of the interior.