Salt Lake

Salt Lake lies in the Great Basin, a landscape of saline lakes, dry plains and mountain ranges. In the wider region, Indigenous communities used freshwater sources, seeds and game through seasonal movements between valleys and uplands. The Goshute homeland extended southwest of the Great Salt Lake into western Utah and eastern Nevada, where their knowledge of plants and water supported life in the desert basin. The first documented entry by white newcomers into Goshute territory came in 1826, bringing new pressures to a region that was already inhabited.