STATELINE, Nev. – The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California is hosting the first Washoe Intentional Fire Training in Lake Tahoe from September 30 to October 4, 2024. This event is part of a broader ...

With wildfire threatening many areas surrounding Lake Tahoe this summer, members of the Washoe Tribe have embarked on a project to integrate use of their tribe’s traditional knowledge into current ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The California Tahoe Conservancy has awarded a $305,000 grant to the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California for work in the Lake Tahoe Basin to improve forest and watershed ...

Preparations are underway for the Washoe Tribe’s 29th annual Wa She Shu It’Deh Arts Festival. Featuring cultural events ranging from a Washoe basket competition (with weavers from Nevada and ...

This past fall, under a dark, lightning-laced sky, members of the Washoe Tribe of California and Nevada began working with the USDA’s Rural Economic Development Innovation (REDI) initiative. The ...

TRUCKEE, Calif.— California State Parks officials are planning to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the department’s Sierra District and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California ...

When the siren went off at 6 p.m., Bernice Auchoberry knew she had 30 minutes to get out of town. Auchoberry is a member of the Washoe Tribe. She was born in 1914, and she remembers what it was like ...

MINDEN, Nev. (AP) — A red siren perched atop a small town’s volunteer fire department sounds every night at 6 p.m., sending a piercing noise echoing through the ranches and towns of northern Nevada’s ...

Washoe Tribe occupied Tahoe Basin for thousands of years Tribe recently learned Washoe County was negotiating to transfer Tahoe land from feds to ski resort Tribal official says it should be returned ...

TAHOE CITY, Calif. (AP) — Women of the Washoe Tribe have long fought against the word “squaw,” a racist slur that for more than half a century was part of the name of a famous Sierra ski resort. The ...

A petition calling for the Washoe Tribe to be allowed to rename Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows Ski Resort, one of Tahoe's most well-known ski resorts, has collected more than 42,000 signatures since it ...

RENO, Nev. – A Nevada man faces more than a year in prison for desecrating property that’s culturally significant to American Indians in California and Nevada. Timothy Brian Harrison, 50, of South ...