enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Yakama Indian Reservation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakama_Indian_Reservation

    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]

  3. List of Indian reservations in Washington - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian...

    Lummi Indian Reservation: 6,590 21,000 West of Bellingham, in western Whatcom County: Makah Indian Reservation: 1,356 27,950 On Cape Flattery in Clallam County: Muckleshoot Indian Reservation: 3,300 3,850 Southeast of Auburn in King County: Nisqually Indian Reservation: 588 4,800 Western Pierce County and eastern Thurston County: Nooksack ...

  4. Yakama - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakama

    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 ...

  5. Kittitas people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittitas_people

    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.

  6. Washington v. Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakima ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_v._Confederated...

    Washington v. Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation, 439 U.S. 463 (1979), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the State of Washington's imposition of partial jurisdiction over certain actions on an Indian reservation, when not requested by the tribe, was valid under Public Law 280.

  7. Washington state wildfire threatens homes, farms, gas pipeline

    www.aol.com/news/washington-state-wildfire...

    The fire was also moving toward the Yakama Indian Reservation, BICKLETON, Washington (Reuters) -A fast-growing wildfire forced residents to evacuate a rural stretch of southern Washington state's ...

  8. Toppenish, Washington - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toppenish,_Washington

    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. Toppenish calls itself the city of Murals, as it has more than 75 murals adorning its buildings. The first, "Clearing the Land ...

  9. Klickitat people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klickitat_people

    Lewis and Clark found them wintering on the Yakima and Klickitat Rivers and estimated their number at about 700. In the early 1850s, the Klickitat Tribe raided present-day Jackson County, Oregon from the north and settled the area. Modoc, Shasta, Takelma, Latgawas, and Umpqua Indian tribes had already lived within the present boundaries of that ...