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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 Yakama Nation bans alcohol on tribal land, including its casino and convenience store, as well as on tribal powwows and other ceremonies. [21] In 2000, the tribal council voted to extend its alcohol ban to the entirety of the 1.2-million-acre reservation, including private land owned by the estimated 20,000 non-tribal members who lived on ...
The Yakama Nation has won a temporary restraining order preventing the City of Toppenish, Washington, from closing its new cold weather shelter. Tribal Sovereignty Saves a Homeless Shelter (For ...
The Yakama Nation and CTUIR both depend on their casinos to fund important tribal government services and employ members. Both built the complexes within their reservation boundaries.
Gerald Lewis, chairman of the Yakama Nation Tribal Council, thanked the Biden administration "for the unprecedented level of federal commitment they have shown to saving our salmon and to ...
William Yallup Sr. (born September 1926, Ellensburg, Washington - died June 17, 2006, Toppenish, Washington) was a longtime Yakama tribal councilman. A direct descendant of treaty signer Wish-Och-Kmpits, he was born in a tepee at the annual Labor Day Rodeo. He was raised with traditional Yakama teachings and spoke both Yakama and English.
Lavina Washines (April 1, 1940 – June 2, 2011) was the first female leader of the Yakama Nation, Washington, United States. Washines was first elected to the Yakama Nation Tribal Council in 1985. In 2006, she became chair of the tribal council, serving until 2008. [1]
The Yakama Nation had asked that all turbines, solar arrays and infrastructure east of Straub Canyon, which is south of Richland, be prohibited to protect tribal cultural resources. The council ...