FEIS - Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
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RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON THE DEIS<br />
B o u l d e r B a y C o m m u n i t y E n h a n c e m e n t P r o g r a m P r o j e c t E I S<br />
starting the paragraph on p. 4-7-2. The Washoe Tribe is federally recognized and a<br />
sovereign government, with 1,600 members. Add Stewart to the list of communities<br />
and note that many members live away from tribal lands. Washoe are not "Indian<br />
Groups" but native people of Washoe ancestry.<br />
The following change will be made to page 4.7-2 of the DEIS.<br />
Ethnography<br />
The project area lies entirely within the territory of the Hokan-speaking Washoe<br />
people. While they were an informal and flexible political collectivity, Washoe<br />
ethnography hints at a level of technological specialization and social complexity for<br />
Washoe groups, non-characteristic of their surrounding neighbors in the Great Basin.<br />
Semisedentism and higher population densities, concepts of private property, and<br />
communal labor and ownership were reported and may have developed in<br />
conjunction with their residential and subsistence resource stability (d’Azevedo<br />
1986:473-476).<br />
Lake <strong>Tahoe</strong> was and remains both the spiritual and physical center of the Washoe<br />
world. The Washoe lived along its shores, and the locations of several Washoe<br />
encampments in the Lake <strong>Tahoe</strong> Basin have been reported. The project vicinity is<br />
near two important Washoe fishing campsites, ImgiwO'tha and MathOcahuwo'tha<br />
(d’Azevedo 1986:473-476).<br />
Currently, The Washoe Tribe is are a federally recognized tribe by the U.S.<br />
Government, is a sovereign government and has have maintained an established<br />
land base. Its approximately 1,200 1,600 tribal members are governed by a tribal<br />
council that consists of members of the Carson, Dresslerville, Woodfords, Stewart<br />
and Reno-Sparks communities, Indian groups, as well as a significant number of<br />
tribal members from non-reservation areas (Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada 1995<br />
and Darrel Cruz, Personal Communication, December 16, 2009).<br />
Comment 102-b: Comment Summary - On p. 4.7-11, note that inadvertent discoveries will be taken in<br />
consultation with the Washoe Tribe.<br />
Mitigation measure CUL-2: Identify and Protect Undiscovered Archaeological<br />
Resources requires consultation with the Washoe Tribe in the event that human<br />
remains or ethnographic resources are discovered during Project construction.<br />
Comment 102-c: Cultural Resources Study, page 7, last paragraph - Describe what is meant by<br />
"residual population", and clarify the Washoe are Hokan speakers, not surrounded<br />
by Numic speakers but between California and Great Basin tribes.<br />
The following change will be made to Cultural Resources Study, Page 7, paragraph<br />
3, line 7:<br />
Delete: “The Washoe are part of an ancient Hokan-speaking residual population,<br />
which has been subsequently surrounded by Numic-speaking intruders such as the<br />
Northern Paiute (Jacobsen 1966).”<br />
Insert: “The Washoe are descendants of an ancient Hokan-speaking population<br />
that was subsequently surrounded in prehistoric times by Numic-speaking<br />
incomers such as the Northern Paiute (Jacobsen 1966).”<br />
PAGE 8- 42 HAUGE BRUECK ASSOCIATES SEPTEMBER 8 , 2010