How Wá∙šiw (Washoe) stories and language relay data, observations, and reverence of Tahoe through time

How Wá∙šiw (Washoe) stories and language relay data, observations, and reverence of Tahoe through time

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – An ages old Wá∙šiw (Washoe) story outlines the journey of a large black and white flightless bird that carried a pouch of seeds. What the bird did with those seeds would go on to have important implications for the people and land. It’s a story tribe member Herman Fillmore shared in his discussion on how culturally significant stories relay data and observations through time at the Ethnobiology Conference that took place …