Parrusit

The Parrusit were Southern Paiute people living in scattered communities along the upper Virgin River. Their country included deep sandstone canyons and the valleys below them, where the river and its tributaries supplied water amid the dry plateau. Southern Paiute families hunted and gathered wild foods and cultivated crops in suitable places. In 1776 the Domínguez–Escalante expedition encountered Southern Paiute communities and recorded irrigated fields of maize, squash and sunflowers in the wider region.