Living in the high Sierra Nevada, the California Native Americans that play a role in The House on Harrigan’s Hill are the Washo (Washoe) and the Paiute. Estimates range from 130,000 to 700,00 Native Americans who inhabited the length and breadth of California long before the land was settled by Spanish and immigrants from all over the world. Those who swooped into California overwhelmed the native population. From the time of the Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and English ex