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The Yakama Indian Reservation (spelled Yakima until 1994) is a Native American reservation in Washington state of the federally recognized tribe known as the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. [2] The tribe is made up of Klikitat, Palus, Wallawalla, Wenatchi, Wishram, and Yakama peoples. [1]
Hoh Indian Reservation: 102 443 The Pacific Coast of Jefferson County: Jamestown S'Klallam Indian Reservation: 594 12 Near Sequim Bay, in extreme eastern Clallam County: Kalispel Indian Reservation: 470 4,629 The town of Cusick, in Pend Oreille County: Lower Elwha Indian Reservation: 776 991 The mouth of the Elwha River, in Clallam County ...
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 more than 1.1 million-acre Yakama Nation Indian Reservation in Yakima County is the largest Indian Nation in the northwest. ... The area has a range of events during the year, ...
The fire was also moving toward the Yakama Indian Reservation, Allen Lebovitz, a spokesperson for the state's Department of Natural Resources, said in an interview in Bickleton, a community of ...
Toppenish (/ ˈ t ɒ p p ə n ɪ ʃ /) is a city in Yakima County, Washington, United States. The population was 8,854 at the 2020 census. [5] It is located within the Yakama Indian Reservation, established in 1855. Toppenish calls itself the city of Murals, as it has more than 75 murals adorning its buildings. The first, "Clearing the Land ...
Lewis and Clark found them wintering on the Yakima and Klickitat Rivers and estimated their number at about 700. In the early 1850s, the Klickitat Tribe raided present-day Jackson County, Oregon from the north and settled the area. Modoc, Shasta, Takelma, Latgawas, and Umpqua Indian tribes had already lived within the present boundaries of that ...
The Court held that under the Indian General Allotment Act, 24 Stat. 388, the Yakima Nation no longer retained the exclusive use and benefit of the land and had no regulatory power over lands held in fee by non-tribal Indians where its interest in regulating the fee land was not demonstrably serious and its political integrity, the economic ...