Silver Lake

Silver Lake lies in the dry country of the northern Great Basin, among lakes and marshes east of the Cascades. The Northern Paiute people of the Silver and Summer Lake region were known to some of their neighbours as the deer eaters. Around Silver Lake, people fished in lakes and deep streams, and hunted deer, elk and pronghorn, sometimes driving the animals over steep banks. The wetlands and uplands supplied different foods to communities whose knowledge of the basin reached well beyond a single lakeshore.