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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. Open Rattlesnake Mountain to all. Tribal rights, limited ...

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    The federal government’s engaging with the Yakama, Umatilla, Nez Perce and Wanapum promises a new approach in which native culture is not sidelined, and the tribes have an active hand in ...

  5. White House ceremony launches $1 billion Snake River dams ...

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    The six governments negotiating the agreement with the federal government included Washington state, Oregon state and the Yakama Nation, the Umatilla Tribes, the Nez Perce Tribe and the Warm ...

  6. Yakamas to have 1st ceremonial elk hunt on Rattlesnake Mtn ...

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    Settlers and tribes, including the Yakama Nation, were forced to leave the area of the monument that includes Rattlesnake Mountain when the federal government seized the land as part of the ...

  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. Yakamas worry huge proposed Tri-Cities wind farm will harm ...

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    The tribe asks to have a say in the legal proceedings.

  9. Washington v. Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakima ...

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    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.