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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]
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 is objecting to efforts by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation to develop 184 acres in Pasco for a future casino east of Highway 395.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The mountain, called Laliik in the native Saphatin language, is a sacred site for the Yakama Nation and other Northwest tribes. Treaty rights guarantee their access to the mountain for religious ...
The Shinnecock Indian Nation formally petitioned for recognition in 1978 and was recognized 32 years later in 2010. At a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing, witnesses testified that the process was "broken, long, expensive, burdensome, intrusive, unfair, arbitrary and capricious, less than transparent, unpredictable, and subject to ...