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	Yakama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Nation, or Yakama Nation, is a Native American group with nearly 9,000 enrolled members, living in Washington (state).
		The Yakama people were similar to the other native inhabitants of the Columbia River Plateau.
		Yakama is a northwestern dialect of Sahaptin, a Sahaptian language of the Plateau Penutian stock.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yakama (210 words)

	Yakama/Yakima/Waptailmim
		Yakama, North American tribe of the Sahaptian language family and of the Plateau region culture area.
		The U.S. army defeated the Yakama and their allies in the Battle of Four Lakes in 1858, and the Treaty of 1855 was then implemented.
		The chief occupations of the modern Yakama are farming and livestock raising.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/yakama.htm (349 words)

	Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - Yakama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yakama Indians (who changed the spelling of their name from Yakima to Yakama in 1994) speak the Sahaptin language.
		In 1805 Yakamas met Meriwether Lewis and William Clark at Quosispah, a village near the junction of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers.
		The Yakama dialect of Sahaptin is taught in public schools for children and in adult education classes.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_044100_yakama.htm (1238 words)

	YFP History
		The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation are descendents of 14 tribes and bands that are federally recognized under the Treaty of 1855.
		Yakama Forest Products was approved by General Council resolution in 1994 (GC-3-94) as a way to fully utilize and add value to the allowable timber cut that comes off the Nation’s land.
		Yakama Forest Products is the first sawmill operation started up by the Yakama Indian Nation.
	www.yakama-forest.com /yfp_history.htm (349 words)

	Yakama - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Yakama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Yakama originally led a seminomadic lifestyle, migrating to different areas to follow the seasonal supply of fish, wild plants, roots, nuts, berries, and game.
		The treaty allowed a two-year period for the various peoples to resettle, but within 12 days their lands were declared open for white settlement by the governor of Washington Territory, Isaac Stevens.
		The Yakima War erupted soon after, led by Chief Kamiakan of the Yakama, but by 1859 the uprising had been put down and the treaty was ratified.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Yakama (430 words)

	CRITFC \| Yakama Nation
		Yakama women stand in front of the Yakama Nation Cultural Center.
		In the 1855 Treaty with the Yakama, 14 bands and tribes ceded 11.5 million acres to the United States.
		The bands and tribes in the Yakama confederation are the Kah-milt-pah, Klickitat, Klinquit, Kow-was-say-ee, Li-ay-was, Oche-chotes, Palouse, Pisquose, Se-ap-cat, Shyiks, Skinpah, Wenatshapam, Wishram, and Yakama.
	www.critfc.org /text/yakama.html (266 words)

	Yakama Indian Nation Toppenish, Washington (Native American)
		The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation are descendents of 14 tribes and bands that were federally recognized under the Yakama Treaty of 1855.
		The Yakama were one of several Native American groups who lived in similar ways on the Columbia Plateau of today's Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
		The Yakama encountered the Lewis and Clark Expedition near the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia rivers in 1805.
	www.ohwy.com /wa/y/yakamana.htm (1400 words)

	Yakama Hydroelectric Project: News and Images (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Yakama Nation and PacifiCorp, joining as Yakama Hydroelectric Project, LLC, are preparing a competing license application for Wanapum and Priest Rapids dams located on the Columbia River in the ceded lands of the Yakama Nation.
		The Yakama Nation and PacifiCorp believe it is possible to use the power of the Columbia River respectfully to produce electricity and still be good stewards of the ecosystems that sustain life and well being in the Pacific Northwest.
		Yakama Hydroelectric will also examine the potential to expand and improve habitat in the lower Yakima River, study ways to support habitat programs in upstream watersheds, and identify supplementation measures to help compensate for fishery losses at the Project that cannot be addressed otherwise.
	www.yakamahydroproject.com /consultdoc/execsum.html (1173 words)

	Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation -- Yakama Hydroelectric Project Announces Change in ...
		The two dams are located in the heart of the Yakama Ceded Area and have severely affected the salmon that migrate to the Yakama's homeland.
		In October, Yakama Hydroelectric issued an Initial Consultation Document that identified the issues that need to be addressed in the competing license application and proposed a number of initiatives to expand economic benefits, improve recreation, and protect salmon and cultural resources.
		Yakama Hydroelectric believes it is possible to respectfully use the power from the Columbia River to produce electricity and still be good stewards of the ecosystems that sustain life and well-being in the Pacific Northwest.
	www.waterchat.com /News/Indian/02/Q1/ind_020103-02.htm (419 words)

	Yakama Nation Tribal Profile
		Although the Yakamas ceded 10,828,800 acres of ancestral homeland to the U.S. government, they reserved their right to hunt, fish, access and use traditional cultural sites, gather traditional foods and medicines, pasture stock and have water in sufficient quantity and quality in all of their "usual and accustomed places" within this ceded area.
		The Yakama Reservation is primarily agricultural on the valley floor, range or grazing in the foothills and forested to the west and south.
		Self-government was re-established among the Yakamas in 1935.
	www.npaihb.org /profiles/tribal_profiles/Washington/Yakama%20Nation%20Tribal%20Profile.htm (702 words)

	ICT [2000/07/12] Yakama Nation joins defendants in Kennewick Man case
		The counterclaim states that the Yakama Nation is culturally affiliated with Kennewick Man, known to the tribe as Techaminsh Oytpamanatity, "From the Land the First Native." It also states that, under the laws of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the 9,000-year-old bones belong to the tribe and should be repatriated for reburial.
		Yakama Nation representatives say the move is strictly a legal maneuver to bring the tribal voice back into legal proceedings that have dragged on since 1996.
		In the meantime, the Yakama, Umatilla, Nez Perce, Colville and Wanapum tribes continue to gather evidence of affiliation with Kennewick Man, including artifacts, oral histories and maps showing that the area in which Kennewick Man was discovered falls into the tribe's usual and accustomed territories.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=769 (977 words)

	Encyclopedia: Yakama
		The Yakama Indian Reservation is a United States Indian reservation located on the east side of the Cascade Mountains of the state of Washington.
		The mid-nineteenth century found the Yakama Indians living along the Columbia and Yakima Rivers on the plateau in central Washington Territory, on land in the path of white settlement.
		Sahaptianic language family is a group of languages of several Native American tribes on the Columbia Plateau region of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in the northwestern United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yakama (414 words)

	Yakama Sahaptin Language (Yakima, Klickitat, Klikitat, Qwu'lh-hwai-pum)
		Yakama is a Penutian language of the Western Plateau.
		Some linguists consider Yakama to be one dialect of a single Sahaptin language, and others consider it to be one of three or four distinct Sahaptin languages.
		Yakama and Klickitat speakers have some difficulty understanding Umatilla or Walla Walla speakers, but they are similar enough that speakers can usually all communicate relatively well.
	www.native-languages.org /yakama.htm (280 words)

	INDIAN NATIONS - Yakama Nation Primary Seat Belt Law
		In December 2000, the Yakama Nation Occupant Protection Coalition made a presentation to the Tribal Council that included oral testimony and background information, as well as the draft Resolution for a primary (standard) seat belt law to be added to the “Law and Order Code Manual”.
		The Yakama Nation leadership passed a primary seat belt law by a vote of 10 to 0, with recommendations to give the primary law a one-year transition in the community by immediately educating the public.
		Many Yakama people, including the young adults of Indian Clubs at the five local high schools, participated in the three-year project leading up to passage of the law.
	www.nhtsa.dot.gov /people/outreach/safedige/Fall2001/F01_06W_INDIAN.html (720 words)

	Industrial Reporting, Inc. Article - Yakama Growing on Success of Small Log Mill
		Yakama Forest Products is a company wholly owned by the Yakama Nation Indian tribe, which governs a 1,377,034-acre reservation some 125 miles east of Seattle.
		A key goal of the Yakama Nation is to restore the forest on their land to the conditions that existed when Europeans first came to the region.
		"Yakama Forest Products was founded to help assure that the Yakama Nation was getting the greatest return possible from those lands and that timber." The new mill is part of plan to manage the lands and timber resources for the long-term benefit of the Yakama Nation and its peoples.
	www.timberlinemag.com /articledatabase/view.asp?articleID=47 (2103 words)

	The Flag of the Yakima or Yakama Nation
		That reservation was granted to the Yakama in a treaty signed in 1855 by Gov. Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory and representatives of the Cayuse, Umatilla, Wallawalla, Nez Perce and Yakama tribes.
		A Yakama chief, Kamiakin called upon the tribes that had been duped to forcefully oppose this declaration, but not before they had built up their strength to oppose the military.
		The Yakama Nation, which is about 6,300 strong (AID, 39) has a flag (sample flag provided by Elmer's Flag and Banner, Portland, OR) that shows the borders of the reservation in white against a sky blue background.
	hometown.aol.com /donh523/navapage/yakima.htm (543 words)

	Honoring Nations 2002 >> Yakama Nation Land Enterprise
		While this is a large land area, the Yakama Nation and its citizens own only a fraction of the land within the reservation's external boundaries; currently, a mere 90,000 acres are held in trust.
		The Yakama Nation's struggles with land loss began almost 150 years ago when, in 1855, the federal government pressured the Yakama to cede by treaty more than ten million acres of their ancestral homelands.
		By expanding the Yakama land base, consolidating land holdings and bringing them under tribal jurisdiction, using acquired land for business and governmental purposes, and drawing these goals together through sound operations and a strategic outlook, the Yakama Nation Land Enterprise proves that for the Yakama Nation, sovereignty is about people, identity, and land.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /hpaied/hn/hn_2002_land.htm (1747 words)

	Yakama Nation intends to sue over Hanford pollution
		YAKIMA -- The Yakama Nation has given the federal government notice that it plans to sue the U.S. Department of Energy, contending that the DOE has failed to protect the Columbia River from pollution from the Hanford nuclear reservation.
		The Yakama Nation said it was disappointed with progress on the cleanup at the 586-square-mile reservation, which is the most contaminated nuclear site in the country after 40 years of plutonium production for the nation's nuclear arsenal.
		The Yakama Nation intends to sue under federal Superfund law provisions, which allow tribes and other governments to sue polluters who discharge hazardous substances that damage natural resources.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/125606_yakama07.html (451 words)

	UW-EPLT Yakama Nation & University of Washington Receive Grant to Create a Community Technology Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Toppenish, WA - The Yakama Nation in partnership with the University of Washington Office of Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies, was recently awarded a competitive U.S. Department of Education grant through the Technology Opportunities Program to establish a Community Technology Center.
		The Yakama Nation Center is one of two supported by the grant.
		Through this partnership, the UW, Yakama Nation, and Heritage College will design and install the new technology center, hire a facility manager, provide training to all interested community members and develop projects that use the resources of the technology center to improve the quality of life in the Yakama Nation.
	www.washington.edu /eplt/pressroom/yakimactc.shtml (797 words)

	Canku Ota - December 13, 2003 - A healthy sign for Yakama language
		Signing is integral to the Yakama language, she says, noting that it's still used by some in ceremonies where talking is forbidden.
		The language class, which incorporates other aspects of Yakama culture, is open to middle school students and meets every Tuesday and Thursday.
		There are many dialects of the Yakama language, because the Yakamas are a confederation of 14 tribes, and Miller says she tries to make it all available to students.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues03/Co12132003/CO_12132003_YakimaLanguage.htm (629 words)

	Smithsonian Staff at Yakama Nation Museum in Toppenish
		Yakama staff from the local museum in Toppenish will work with the tribe to formulate a plan for what they want to submit to the Smithsonian.
		The Smithsonian picked the Yakamas because the 9,000 members include 14 separate bands and tribes that were forced to live together after the signing of the 1855 treaty with the United States when they lost their reservation.
		Yakama is the spelling the tribe (at Toppenish in E. WA) gave themselves ten years ago to distinguish themselves from th...
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/washington_state/60672 (567 words)

	Resources on the Yakama
		Yakama Nation has a substantial interest in these proceedings, and would readily grant a motion from it to participate as amicus curiae.
		Briggs, Yakama, is a writer and journalist in Portland, Ore. She is a reporter at The Oregonian in Portland.
		The Nez Perce, Yakama, Walla Walla, and Umatilla...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/north_american/Yakama.html (1244 words)

	Friends of America's Past: The Kennewick Man Case: Motion of the Yakama Nation for Leave to Appear as Amicus Curiae and ...
		The people of the Yakama Nation have always used the natural resources of that area for their cultural survival, and they continue to practice their traditional ceremonies and ways of life.
		The Yakama Nation has claimed the remains as an ancestor, and is a signatory party to a Joint Claim of Custody also signed by four other Indian tribes.
		The Yakama Nation respectfully requests permission to appear and participate in this case as amicus curiae for the purpose of providing this Court with its views on the remedial intent of NAGPRA and how the statute should be applied by federal agencies in conformity with that intent.
	www.friendsofpast.org /kennewick-man/court/amici/motion-yakama.html (536 words)

	Oglesby
		The Yakama Christian Mission in White Swan, Wash., is a vibrant social justice and outreach ministry that works to enhance the opportunities of local youth through education and advocacy.
		Yakama Christian Mission is one of four domestic mission centers supported by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Disciples Home Missions.
		In 2000, the mission was renamed Yakama Christian Mission to reflect a refocus on providing Christian social services to the community of the Yakama Nation on behalf of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
	www.disciples.org /dns/Releases2005/0542.htm (763 words)

	Froum For Global Exchange
		“The Yakama Nation,” Jim said, “responded to these recent challenges in the only way possible, through its cultural insights and understandings.” Noting in his remarks “The Yakama culture continues to respect the land and its creatures through time honored laws which protect life and the cycles of nature” Mr.
		He pointed to the efforts of the George Bush Administration to “accelerate cleanup” of nuclear waste across the country by changing the name of the cleanup effort to “long term stewardship.” By changing the name, many forms of toxic radioactive materials will no longer be considered officially hazardous, but a problem to be managed.
		Jim served as a member of the Yakama Nation Tribal Council, was appointed by Washington State's Governor to the Commission for the Humanities and to the Washington state High Level Nuclear Waste Advisory Council.
	www.cwis.org /fge/rj_press1105.htm (635 words)

	Yakama Nation Tribe and Bands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Yakama tribes reside on the Yakama Indian Nations Reservation arcing around scenic Mount Adams in southwestern Washington State, twice as large as Rhode Island.
		The city of Toppenish is located east of the Yakama Indian Nation’s headquarters in the eastern part of the Yakama Reservation where nearly 8,800 Yakama tribal members and more than 13, 700 people live on or near the reservation.
		Not only are the eagle and mountain sacred, but also they share a lifestyle with many Yakama tribes who proudly retain many aspects of their culture among Washington, Oregon and Idaho over the blue sky.
	www.deafnative.com /Yakama.htm (922 words)

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