* Friends of Washoe -- CHCI's 501. 3 ( c ) organization dedicated to education and advocacy.

This Sparky can rack and single-foot and he's the fastest thing in Washoe County.

Prior to the Fremont expedition, the Washoe people inhabited the valley and surrounding areas.

Settlers named the area Washoe in reference to the tribe.

The land comprising the modern state was inhabited by Native Americans of the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes prior to European contact.

* The university was home to the signing chimpanzee Washoe from 1980 until her death in October 2007 ; from 1993 at the university's Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute.

Washoe County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nevada.

Washoe County includes the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area.

Washoe County was created in 1861 as one of the original nine counties of the Nevada Territory.

It is named after the Washoe people who originally inhabited the area.

Washoe City was the first county seat in 1861 and was replaced by Reno in 1871.

In 1911 a small group of Bannock under a leader named " Shoshone Mike " killed four ranchers in Washoe County.

In 2010, there was a ballot question asking whether the Reno city government and the Washoe County government should become one combined governmental body.

* Washoe Zephyr, a regional wind referenced by Mark Twain.

The soils of the Cotati area are characterized by recent alluvial materials, explicitly those areas bordering the Laguna de Santa Rosa and its tributary Washoe Creek.

" The Washoe Tribe has presented the name Tahnu Leweh ( Pronounced Tah-New Lay-Way ) which, in native language, means " all the people's place.

At its peak, Bearcreek and the surrounding communities of Washoe, New Caledonia, Chickentown, Scotch Coulee, International, and Stringtown, had a population of about 3, 000 people, most of whom worked in the coal mines.

Today, those surrounding towns are almost completely gone, with only a few houses and a quilt shop marking Washoe, currently the largest of them.

Cold Springs is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

Gerlach – Empire is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

The other major industries are a Union Pacific switching station in Gerlach and public services of Washoe County, which includes its roads department and a K – 12 public school owned by the Washoe County School District ; the future of the Gerlach K – 12 School is unknown, as it is estimated that after the gypsum plant closes only around a dozen children will remain in Gerlach.

Incline Village – Crystal Bay is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Washoe County, Nevada on the north shore of Lake Tahoe.

The region is served by the Washoe County School District.

In September 1980, Washoe, Loulis, and Moja moved to Central Washington University.

Washoe was born in West Africa in 1965.

* Washoe Lake State Park – borders city to the north

* June 8 – The discovery of the Comstock Lode in the western Utah Territory setting off the Rush to Washoe

Lemmon Valley – Golden Valley is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

Reno – Tahoe International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport located three nautical miles ( 6 km ) southeast of the central business district of Reno, a city in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

* 1970 – Allan and Beatrix Gardner teach American Sign Language to the chimpanzee Washoe

The Washo language ( Washo: wá: šiw ʔítlu ) ( also Washoe ) is an endangered Native American language isolate spoken by the Washo on the California – Nevada border in the drainages of the Truckee and Carson Rivers, especially around Lake Tahoe.

Dr. McQueen served on the Washoe County School District Board of Trustees from 1969 – 1990, during which the district built several new schools, including Reed and McQueen.

After rejoining the original alignment of US 395 near the Carson – Tahoe Hospital the highway crests Lakeview Hill to enter Washoe Valley.

* 1964 – 70: Washoe Valley — Washoe County – Carson City line north to Winters Ranch area ( junction Carson-Reno Highway / US 395 and Old Highway 395 / SR 429 )

* 2006: Carson City — Washoe County – Carson City line ( N. Carson Street ) south to E. William Street ( US 50 )

Washoe had lived at Central Washington University since 1980 ; on October 30, 2007, officials from the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute on the CWU campus announced that she had died at the age of 42.

* Washoe, 1966-30 October 2007.

The area around Lake Tahoe was originally inhabited by the Washoe tribe of Native Americans.

Lake Tahoe was the center and heart of Washoe Indian territory, including the upper valleys of the Walker, Carson and Truckee Rivers.

R. Allen and Beatrix Gardner made a similar earlier study, called Project Washoe, in which another chimpanzee was raised like a human child.

Washoe was given affection and participated in everyday social activity with her adoptive family.

Washoe lived 24 hours a day with her human family from birth ; Nim at 2 weeks old was raised by a family in a home environment by human surrogate parents to see if he could refute Noam Chomsky's thesis that language is inherent only in humans.

Project Nim was an attempt to go further than Project Washoe.

Terrace, however, was skeptical of Project Washoe and, according to the critics, went to great lengths to discredit it.

Roger Fouts, of the Washoe Project, also claims that Project Nim was poorly conducted because it did not use strong enough methodology to avoid such comparisons and efficiently defend against them.

Fouts later reported, however, that a community of ASL-speaking chimpanzees ( including Washoe herself ) was spontaneously using this language as a part of their internal communication system.

In 1994, a Washoe County elementary school was named in Winnemucca's honor.

Mills Bee Lane III ( born November 12, 1936 ) is a retired boxing referee, a former boxer, was a two-term Washoe County District Court Judge, and television personality.

She is well known for her comparative studies into the cognitive fundamentals of language and communication, and was one of the first to try to extend work on language learning in animals other than humans ( exemplified by the Washoe project ) to a bird species.

* Washoe ( chimpanzee ) -- a chimpanzee that was taught by humans to speak in American Sign Language

* Before it was made a Territory, Nevada was popularly known as Washoe

Washoe was named for Washoe County, Nevada, where she was raised and taught to use ASL.