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The reservation is located on the east side of the Cascade Mountains in southern Washington state. The eastern portion of Mount Adams lies within this territory. According to the United States Census Bureau, the reservation covers 2,185.94 square miles (5,661.56 km²) and the population in 2000 was 31,799.
Puyallup Indian Reservation: 4,000 18,061 Primarily northern Pierce County: Quileute Indian Reservation: 371 1,003.4 Southwestern portion of the Olympic Peninsula in Clallam County: Quinault Indian Nation: 2,535 208,150 Primarily the north coast of Grays Harbor County: Samish Indian Reservation: 1,835 79 (Samish also owns another ~130 acres of ...
Yakama Indian Nation The Mount Adams Recreation Area is a 21,000-acre (8,500 ha) recreation area in the U.S. state of Washington managed by the Yakama Nation Tribal Forestry Program . The area encompasses an ecologically complex and geologically active landscape.
Today the nation is governed by the Yakama Tribal Council, which consists of representatives of 14 tribes. Many Yakama people engage in ceremonial, subsistence, and commercial fishing for salmon, steelhead, and sturgeon in the Columbia River and its tributaries, including within land ceded by the tribe to the United States.
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The land comprising Ahtanum State Forest had previously been a checkerboard of public and private land. [3] In 2005, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) traded 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares) of scattered land elsewhere for 12,000 acres (4,900 hectares) of this private forest owned by two companies, Plum Creek Timber and Elk Haven Tree Farms. [4]
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.