Talk:Washoe people

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f☼ct up?

so the washoe people had almost no impact on the land around them. this created a vulnerability for the land to simply be built upon (by european settlers aka the not so distant ancestors of today's american society). this left the washoe without land, food, and shelter, which they needed to survive. and so their only option besides to die was to integrate into the bad-for-the-environment society of the european descended "settlers."

is it just me, or does that suck?

198.189.128.168 22:57, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I, washo people, want to add information regarding the impact that the Washo people had on the land around them. Our connections to the land, animal, air and water had direct balance with nature created by the practices and the beliefs of the Washo way. For example, places that Washo didn't build permanent structures in, such as meadows and spring areas, were vital to the ecology. All life used these areas, and when people build in those areas life has a difficult time surviving in that environment, and the cycle of life is disrupted. The Washo people took great care in deciding where to build their structures in order to minimize their impact on the ecology. When the Washo people left an area, they would do controlled burns in order to stimulate growth and reduce the fuels to prevent large out of control fires. When hunting or fishing, we would only take the males, allowing the females to continue to populate. Barren does were permissible to hunt even though they are female, they no longer could reproduce.

In modern times, we no longer need to fear for our lives, and we can work to returning to our original responsibilities of managing the land and interpreting our role as care takers for the land and the animals and the water and the air. We can accomplish these goals by teaching people how we Washo understand our places and how we all can help our environment.

Providing information to people about our ways can help to make it not suck. And we are working towards this goal. I hope in the future to add much more content to the wiki page to help spread the information which today's modern day society is lacking. - Dtahtihshmeh (talk) 07:57, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Washo

The name of the article is currently "Washoe people", but the article text mostly uses "Washo", and the language article is "Washo language". What appears to be the tribe's website spells it "Washoe". Can one or the other be used consistently, with a mention of (and redirects from) the variant spelling? —KCinDC (talk) 00:13, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Traditionally, it's always been 'Washoe' and the tribe uses it themselves. An editor has apparently taken it upon themselves to advocate a WP:neologism. -LlywelynII (talk) 20:36, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Fix'd per WP:UCN, WP:NEO, WP:UE. Google -wiki shows Washoe with an e is by far more prevalent, although it seems the language/lingual group is called "Washo," witout one. There are scholarly articles in the sources without an e, but before adding it as an alternative name in the lede, it'd be good if someone could check that they aren't referring to the language group but the actual people. -LlywelynII (talk) 20:47, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

the washoe people used to be — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.164.115.254 (talk) 18:06, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

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big stub; needs thorough expansion/revision. --Skookum1 (10 May 06)

Last edited at 23:23, 1 August 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 10:17, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

How deep is washoe lake

it is 112ft deep 99.127.124.144 (talk) 00:02, 12 May 2022 (UTC)