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Map of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (in green), east of Pendleton. The reservation has a land area of 271.047 square miles (702.01 km 2) and a tribal population of 2,927 as of the 2000 census. In addition, some 300 Native Americans from other regional tribes and 1,500 non-natives live on the reservation. [1]
The Umatilla River is an 89-mile (143 km) tributary of the Columbia River in northern Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. [4] Draining a basin of 2,450 square miles (6,300 km 2 ), it enters the Columbia near the city of Umatilla in the northeastern part of the state. [ 4 ]
Their reservation is located near Pendleton, Oregon and the Blue Mountains. A number of places and geographic features have been named after the tribe, such as the Umatilla River, Umatilla County, the town of Umatilla, Florida, and Umatilla National Forest. The impoundment of the Columbia River behind the John Day Dam is called Lake Umatilla.
The Cayuse tribe shares a reservation and government in northeastern Oregon with the Umatilla and the Walla Walla tribes as part of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The reservation is located near Pendleton, Oregon, at the base of the Blue Mountains. The Cayuse called themselves the Liksiyu in the Cayuse language. [2]
In the early 1980s, under the tribe's leadership, salmon were reintroduced in the Umatilla River. The tribe, along with the state of Oregon, operate egg-taking, spawning, and other propagation facilities that are helping restore salmon runs. In 1984, the first fall Chinook salmon in some 70 years returned to the Umatilla River. [3]
Siletz Reservation, of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz: 4,204 acres (17.01 km 2), 3,666 acres (14.84 km 2) of which is in Lincoln County; Umatilla Reservation, of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation: 172,882 acres (699.63 km 2), mostly in Umatilla County, with the rest in Union County
The Biden administration, leaders of four Columbia River Basin tribes and the governors of Oregon and Washington celebrated on Friday as they signed papers formally launching a $1 billion plan to ...
The people are a Sahaptin-speaking tribe that traditionally inhabited the interior Columbia River region of the present-day northwestern United States. For centuries before the coming of European settlers, the Walla Walla, consisting of three principal bands, occupied the territory along the Walla Walla River (named for them) and along the confluence of the Snake and Columbia River rivers in a ...