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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]
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 ...
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.
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
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 ...
Yakama Nation Reservation: Washington: 31,272: ... A state designated American Indian reservation is the land area designated by a state for state-recognized American ...
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The Yakima War (1855–1858), also referred to as the Plateau War or Yakima Indian War, [1] was a conflict between the United States and the Yakama, a Sahaptian-speaking people of the Northwest Plateau, then part of Washington Territory, and the tribal allies of each.