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The Yakama Nation will hold its first ceremonial elk hunt since World War II on the ... U.S. Fish and Wildlife works with tribes that have traditionally used the area to provide access for their ...
“Since time immemorial, the strength of the Yakama Nation and its people have come from Nch’í Wána — the Columbia River — and from the fish, game, roots and berries it nourishes,” said ...
Hells Canyon Dam, Snake River Snake River near Twin Falls, Idaho Coho Spawning on the Salmon River. The Columbia Basin Initiative is a 2023 agreement between the U.S. government, four sovereign Native American Tribes (Nez Perce, Yakama, Warm Springs and Umatilla) and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon to provide over $1 billion in funds for salmon restoration and clean energy production. [1]
Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge is located on the Yakama Indian Reservation about 6 miles south of Toppenish, Washington, [2] in the agriculturally intensive Yakima Valley of eastern Washington state.
Yakama people today are enrolled in the federally recognized tribe, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. Their Yakama Indian Reservation, along the Yakima River, covers an area of approximately 1.2 million acres (5,260 km 2). Today the nation is governed by the Yakama Tribal Council, which consists of representatives of 14 ...
The tribe asks to have a say in the legal proceedings.
The Yakima Klickitat Fisheries Project (YKFP) is a salmon supplementation project in the Yakima and Klickitat river basins in Washington state designed to use artificial propagation in an attempt to maintain or increase natural production while maintaining long-term fitness of the target population and keeping ecological and genetic impacts to non-target species within specified limits.
The mountain, called Laliik in the native Saphatin language, is a sacred site for the Yakama Nation and other Northwest tribes. Treaty rights guarantee their access to the mountain for religious ...