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  2. Yakama Indian Reservation - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Yakama - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Klickitat people - Wikipedia

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    Most of them settled upon the Yakama Indian Reservation, a minority on the Grand Ronde Community. Despite accepting the un-ratified Treaty in 1855, the Kilkitats were reported to have surrounded the city during the Battle of Seattle on January 26, 1856.

  5. Kittitas people - Wikipedia

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    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. Chief Kamiakin - Wikipedia

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    Kamiakin (c. 1800–1877) (Yakama) was a leader of the Yakama, Palouse, and Klickitat peoples east of the Cascade Mountains in what is now southeastern Washington state. In 1855, he was disturbed by threats of the Territorial Governor, Isaac Stevens, against the tribes of the Columbia Plateau.

  7. Toppenish, Washington - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Yakima County, Washington - Wikipedia

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    The Yakama Indian Reservation was created in 1855. However, several tribes felt the agreement creating this reserved area had been completed without sufficient native input, and skirmishes and local war (the Yakima War, which lasted until 1858) meant that

  9. Mabton, Washington - Wikipedia

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    Mabton is located at the east end of the Yakama Indian Reservation and south of the Yakima River near Sunnyside and Grandview. [10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.80 square miles (2.07 km 2), all of it land. [11]