Cultural History
Yucca Mountain and surrounding lands were central in the lives of the Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute peoples, who shared them for religious ceremonies, resource uses, and social events and Yucca Mountain continues to be considered sacred by the Shoshone people living today.
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