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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 ...
Swinomish Indian Reservation: 3,228 [3] 7,169 The southeastern side of Fidalgo Island in Skagit County: Tulalip Indian Reservation: 2,600 11,500 Port Susan in western Snohomish County: Upper Skagit Indian Reservation: 200 99 Western Skagit County near the towns of Sedro-Woolley and Burlington: Yakama Indian Reservation: 10,851 1,372,000
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 ...
Total population; c. 600 in 1780; c. 400 ... and Umpqua Indian tribes had already lived within the present boundaries of that ... Most of them settled upon the Yakama ...
Toppenish (/ ˈ t ɒ p p ə n ɪ ʃ /) is a city in Yakima County, Washington, United States.The population was 8,854 at the 2020 census. [5] It is located within the Yakama Indian Reservation, established in 1855.
Satus is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yakima County, Washington, United States, located on the eastern corner of the Yakama Indian Reservation. The population was 746 at the 2000 census. It is southwest from the Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge. The community was not recognized in the 2010 census. The area was first settled and ...
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 ...
White Swan is an unincorporated community located on the Yakama Indian Reservation, presumably named after Chief White Swan of the Yakamas [4] around the start of the 20th century. The town was on the Mt Adams Highway (an overland road between Yakima and The Dalles beginning in the 1850s) between Union Gap and Fort Simcoe .