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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]
Kalispel Indian Reservation: 470 4,629 The town of Cusick, in Pend Oreille County: Lower Elwha Indian Reservation: 776 991 The mouth of the Elwha River, in Clallam County: 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 ...
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.
Yakama Indian Nation The Mount Adams Recreation Area is a 21,000-acre (8,500 ha) recreation area in the U.S. state of Washington managed by the Yakama Nation Tribal Forestry Program . The area encompasses an ecologically complex and geologically active landscape.
The fire was also moving toward the Yakama Indian Reservation, Allen Lebovitz, a spokesperson for the state's Department of Natural Resources, said in an interview in Bickleton, a community of ...
Ahtanum State Forest is a working forest and recreation area located in Yakima County, Washington. It covers approximately 75,000 acres (30,000 hectares) and lies 30 miles (48 km) west of the city of Yakima. [1] The forest borders the Yakama Indian Reservation to the south, and the name Ahtanum means “stream by long mountain” in the Yakama ...
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 ...
Satus is located at (46.239402, -120.117936 [4]The location of the incorporated area of Satus within the Yakama Indian Reservation. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 69.3 square miles (179 km 2), of which, 68.6 square miles (178 km 2) is land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km 2) (0.98%) is water.