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In 2015, when the federal government proposed allowing a handful of wildflower tours, the Yakama Nation filed a lawsuit to stop it. The tribes also successfully sought the removal of an ...
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 and CTUIR both depend on their casinos to fund important tribal government services and employ members. Both built the complexes within their reservation boundaries.
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 ...
All territory set aside for the Yakama Indian Reservation by the Treaty of Washington was held communally in the name of the tribe. None of the land was individually owned. The treaty of 1855, between the United States government, representatives from thirteen other bands, tribes, and Chief Kamiakin, resulted in the Yakama Nation relinquishing 16,920 square miles (43,800 km 2) of their homelan
The six governments negotiating the agreement with the federal government included Washington state, Oregon state and the Yakama Nation, the Umatilla Tribes, the Nez Perce Tribe and the Warm ...
Settlers and tribes, including the Yakama Nation, were forced to leave the area of the monument that includes Rattlesnake Mountain when the federal government seized the land as part of the ...
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 .