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Washoe County was created in 1861 as one of the original nine counties of the Nevada Territory.
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Washoe County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nevada.
Washoe County includes the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area.
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.
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* National Register of Historic Places listings in Washoe County, Nevada
* Reno 911 !, a parody cop show set in Washoe County
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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 City was the first county seat in 1861 and was replaced by Reno in 1871.
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 ( c. September 1965 Ellensburg – October 30, 2007 ) was a female chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language, as part of a research experiment on animal language acquisition.
Washoe was born in West Africa in 1965.
Washoe was named for Washoe County, Nevada, where she was raised and taught to use ASL.
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