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This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [ 1 ] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California .
Qualchan (died September 24, 1858) was a 19th-century Yakama chieftain who participated in the Yakama War with his Uncle Kamiakin and other chieftains. Qualchan was born into the We-ow-icht family, reputed to have come from the stars. His spirit power was the mist, as was his father's, Owhi, the War Chief of the Yakamas.
Today the nation is governed by the Yakama Tribal Council, which consists of representatives of 14 tribes. Many Yakama people engage in ceremonial, subsistence, and commercial fishing for salmon, steelhead, and sturgeon in the Columbia River and its tributaries, including within land ceded by the tribe to the United States.
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]
Several Native American tribes within the United States register motor vehicles and issue license plates to those vehicles. The legal status of these plates varies by tribe, with some being recognized by the federal government and others not.
During the Yakima War, some members of the otherwise neutral Skinpah joined the Yakama and other Plateau groups in raids against American settlers. Chief Men-ni-nock signed the 1855 Yakama Treaty as a member of the "Skin-pah band of Yakama", [3] beginning the relocation of Skinpah to the Yakama reservation. Sk'in was destroyed by the US Army ...
Renée Gokey, the student and teacher services coordinator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and a member of the Eastern Shawnee tribe, previously told ...
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.