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Native American Housing and Self-Determination Act of 1996; Long title: An act to provide Federal assistance for Indian tribes in a manner that recognizes the right of tribal self-governance, and for other purposes. Acronyms (colloquial) NAHASDA: Enacted by: the 104th United States Congress: Effective: September 1, 1997: Citations; Public law ...
The Yakama Nation suffers from high poverty and unemployment; a 2005 report indicated that 42.8% of Yakama Nation families lived in poverty. [13] As of 2017, there was a wait list of 1,800 families for tribal housing, and high rates of homelessness. [14]
This was done in exchange for a reservation of 250,000 acres (1,000 km 2) [2] and the promise of annuities in the form of goods and supplies. The tribes share the Reservation, which consists of 271 square miles (700 km 2) in Umatilla County, in northeast Oregon state. The tribes have created a joint political structure as part of their ...
Yakama The Klickitat (also spelled Klikitat ) are a Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest . Today most Klickitat are enrolled in the federally recognized Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation , some are also part of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon .
Kittitas is derived from the Sahaptin toponym k'ɨtɨtáš "gravel bank place", referring to a location along the banks of the Yakima River. [5] Pshwánapam ("rock people") is the common Sahaptin endonym for the group, [1] formerly transliterated as Pisch-wan-wap-pam. [6] Kittitas County is named for the tribe.
Sep. 6—The Yakama Nation received a $1 million grant to fight gang and cartel crime, the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington announced Friday. The U.S ...
Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation, 439 U.S. 463 (1979), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the State of Washington's imposition of partial jurisdiction over certain actions on an Indian reservation, when not requested by the tribe, was valid under Public Law 280.
The state of Washington and the Yakama Nation had asked for help in 2011 to gradually reduce the size of the herd from an estimated 700 elk then to about 350 to reduce damage to nearby private ...