Editing Minden, Nevada (section)

=== Use of sundown siren and sundown town status ===
Minden sounded a "[[Sundown town|sundown siren]]" at 6pm almost every evening from 1917 until 2023, originally signifying that members of the Washoe Indian tribe were required to leave town by 6:30pm or face jail or fine.<ref>{{cite web |title=For the Washoe Tribe of Lake Tahoe, a sundown siren is a 'living piece of historical trauma' |url=https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/lake-tahoe-minden-sundown-siren-protest-washoe-16208057.php |publisher=[[SFGATE]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607205657/https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/lake-tahoe-minden-sundown-siren-protest-washoe-16208057.php |archive-date=June 7, 2021 |date=May 28, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="rgj-2023">{{cite news |last1=Yellow Swan |first1=Miles |title=Minden silences daily siren after Nevada passes bill forbidding 'sundown ordinance' sounds |url=https://toot.wales/@fkamiah17/111784296805852147 |access-date=20 January 2024 |work=Reno Gazette Journal |archive-date=20 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240120104658/https://toot.wales/@fkamiah17/111784296805852147 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Douglas County, Nevada|Douglas County]] fully repealed its sundown ordinance in the mid-1970s.

In 2021, the State of Nevada passed a law that prohibits communities from sounding signals associated with a past law "which required persons of a particular race, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin or color to leave the town by a certain time." Minden Town Manager J. D. Frisbee claimed the law doesn't apply to them stating, “There’s a (Minden) ordinance in place right now that says that the siren sounds every day in commemoration of our first responders. … It never went off at 6:30, when the county had an ordinance to get Native Americans out of town.”<ref>{{cite web |title=Minden snubs tribal-backed ban on 'sundown sirens' once used to push people of color out of town |url=https://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2021/05/03/lawmakers-activists-take-aim-sundown-siren-minden/4893403001/ |publisher=[[Reno Gazette Journal]] |date=May 3, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bill that may silence Minden siren on governor's desk |url=https://www.recordcourier.com/news/2021/may/27/bill-may-silence-minden-siren-governors-desk/ |publisher=The Record-Courier |date=May 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607182129/https://www.recordcourier.com/news/2021/may/27/bill-may-silence-minden-siren-governors-desk/ |archive-date=June 7, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Nevada passes law that bans racially discriminatory school mascots and 'sundown sirens' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/05/us/nevada-law-racially-discriminatory-school-mascots-ban-sundown-siren/index.html |publisher=[[CNN]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607181029/https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/05/us/nevada-law-racially-discriminatory-school-mascots-ban-sundown-siren/index.html |archive-date=June 7, 2021 |date=June 5, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=DeHaven|first=James|title=Minden snubs tribal-backed ban on 'sundown sirens' once used to push people of color out of town|url=https://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2021/05/03/lawmakers-activists-take-aim-sundown-siren-minden/4893403001/|access-date=2021-11-13|website=Reno Gazette Journal|language=en-US}}</ref>

After another Nevada law targeting sundown sirens, S.B. 391, was passed in 2023, Minden finally silenced the siren.<ref name="rgj-2023" /> Marty Meeden, a retired elementary school teacher of [[Washoe people|Washoe]] descent, expressed relief, saying, "Did you hear about the partially deaf senior woman who was verbalized for being in town after sunset? Did you hear about the routine picking up of our young men who were beaten and then left out in the fields?... This is the history we as children learned in regards to the siren."<ref name="rgj-2023" />