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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 ...
Ancestors of the Wanapum People, Yakama Nation, Confederated Tribes of the Colville, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation and the Nez Perce used the land for hunting and resource collecting. [citation needed] Geographically, the area is part of the Columbia River Plateau, formed by basalt lava flows and water erosion.
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 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 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 Yakama, based in Toppenish, and CTUIR, based in the Pendleton, Ore. area, both assert the Colville lack the right to build in the Tri-Cities under their respective 1855 treaties with the U.S ...
Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge is located on the Yakama Indian Reservation about 6 miles south of Toppenish, Washington, [2] in the agriculturally intensive Yakima Valley of eastern Washington state.
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