older literature as Wa She Shu.

Territory

Washoe people have lived in the Great Basin and the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains for at least the last 6,000 years, some say up to 9,000 years or more. Prior to contact with Europeans, the territory of the Washoe people centered around Lake Tahoe (; Washo: dá?aw / da?aw / Da ow - "the lake"; or dew?á:ga?a - "edge of the lake") and was roughly bounded by the southern shore

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