Washoen.

1846 J. Clyman Jrnl. 4 May in C. L. Camp J. Clyman, Frontiersman (1960) 206 The tribe we are now passing through call themselves as well as understood Washee.

1846 J. Clyman Jrnl. 4 May in C. L. Camp J. Clyman, Frontiersman (1960) 8 May 207 But as the tribe of natives inhabiting this stream and the adjacent country call themselves the Washew tribe and nation I think it would [be] correct to call the stream by the same name viz Waushee River.

1860 H. De Groot Sketches Washoe Silver Mines 15/2 To this place, on the approach of cold weather, not only the Washoes, whose territory lies adjacent, but also bands of the Pah-Utahs, from a greater distance repair.

1879 H. R. Mighels Sage Brush Leaves 225 We saw..a..young Washoe brave escorting his wife and mother-in-law up towards the campoody.

1903 Out West Apr. 439 The colors in Washoe baskets are all natural.

1947 Desert Mag. Dec. 32/3 The Washoes, of whom less than 1,000 remain, live in valleys along the Sierra Nevada.

1976 Amer. Speech 1974 49 287 The Indian nomenclature belongs principally to three major Numic-speaking groups (Shoshone, Northern Paiute, and Southern Paiute) and to two non-Numic tribes, the Washo and the Mohave.

1856 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 26 May 3/2 The rumored trouble from the Indians of Carson, Wash-hoe and Walker's valley, is entirely without foundation.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxi. 160 Washoe is a pet nickname for Nevada.

1896 C. H. Shinn Story of Mine 110 Not merchants these..but a brave, honest outdoor race whose huge Washoe wagons were the forerunners of the railroads.

1947 Amer. Weekly 2 Nov. 21/3 Back in Washoe, later to become the state of Nevada, the Comstock Lode waited—waited to be discovered.

1882 Mag. Amer. Hist. 8 255 The area of the Washo languages borders to the west on the Maídu.

1921 E. Sapir Lang. iv. 81 Washo..an Indian language of Nevada.

1968 Language 44 822 I am thinking of the contrast with the vowel harmony patterns in Washo.

1867 Daily Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City, Nevada) 8 Mar. 3/1 The discouraged ‘Washoe canary’ refuses to cheer us with its tuneful warblings.

1876 W. Wright Hist. Big Bonanza xiii. 114 A queer genius thus described the donkey, called by everybody in that region, ‘The Washoe Canary’.

1947 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 10 May 32/2 He is..discoursing on the Washoe zephyr and the Washoe canary.

1865 Washoe (Nevada) Times 4 Mar. 3/2 We have heard of hail and chain-lightning, etc., but ye gentle Washoe zephyr can discount all and everything in that line.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxi. 159 According to custom the daily ‘Washoe Zephyr’ set in; a soaring dust-drift..came with it, and the capital of the Nevada Territory disappeared from view.