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	CRITFC \| Yakama Nation
		Mount Adams, the Klickitat River and the Yakima River are among the defining features of the 1.2 million-acre Yakama Indian Reservation in south central Washington.
		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)

	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.
		The reservation is located in south-central Washington, along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountain Range.
		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.
	www.yakama-forest.com /yfp_history.htm (349 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)

	Yakama Indian Nation Toppenish, Washington (Native American)
		The 1,377,034-acre reservation is located in southcentral Washington, along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountain Range.
		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 (1393 words)

	Tribal jurisdiction over gaming on fee land at White Earth Reservation
		The allotment policy created a checkerboard pattern of ownership within the Reservation, with some of the land within the reservation owned in trust by the U.S. government on behalf of the Tribe and some converted to fee land, owned by individuals who may or may not be members of the Tribe.
		The Reservation was created through the Treaty of 1867, which carved out an 837,268-acre reserve on land that had previously not been claimed by any one Band.
		Intended to settle title to allotted reservation lands, the Act gave allottees at most two years to sue to recover title to lands, and provided that allottees who did not sue would be compensated based on the market value of the land as of the date of the alleged invalid conveyance, plus interest.
	www.nigc.gov /Default.aspx?tabid=512 (4488 words)

	Yakama Indian Reservation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the homeland of the Yakama tribe of Native Americans.
		According to the United States Census Bureau the size of the reservation is 2,185.94 mi² (5,661.56 km²) and the population in 2000 was 31,799.
		The largest community on the reservation is the city of Toppenish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yakama_Indian_Reservation (176 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Yakima County -- Thumbnail History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yakima County is bordered on the west by wilderness areas: the Norse Peak Wilderness and Pierce County to the northwest, the William O. Douglas Wilderness/Snoqualmie National Forest/Goat Rocks Wilderness and Lewis County to the central west, and the Cascade Mountain Range/Mt. Adams Wilderness and Skamania County to the southwest.
		The Yakama Indian Reservation comprises 1,271,918 acres (1,573 square miles) in the southern portion of Yakima County and extending into Klickitat County.
		The earliest inhabitants of the region were the confederated bands and tribes of the Yakama Indian Nation who gathered camas, bitter root, and berries, hunted deer, and harvested salmon from the Yakima and Columbia rivers.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=7651 (2454 words)

	toppenish, Yakama valley, tour wineries, sleep in a teepee, windsurf on the columbia river, museums, stop by stonehenge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 city of Toppenish is located east of the Yakama Indian Nation's headquarters in the eastern part of the Reservation.
		The Yakama Reservation covers 1,573 square miles in the south-central Washington counties of Klickitat and Yakima.
	www.discoveryakama.com (332 words)

	SOAR Project 2004
		Yakama Indians are a Native American tribe that live on the Yakama Indian Reservation in the middle of Washington.
		The Yakama Indians ate plants, meat, beans, corn, squash, potatoes, bread, roots, small shrubs, fish, berries, nuts, seeds, salt and maple sap.
		Indian children were praised when they behaved well.
	www.selah.k12.wa.us /SOAR/Projects2004/AshleyB.html (1648 words)

	Printable Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first cases to get new federal scrutiny will be at the Yakama reservation in central Washington, where more than a dozen women were slain or disappeared in the 1980s and early 1990s in what some people speculated could have been the work of a serial killer.
		Eleven of the 13 victims were Indian, and most were in their 20s.
		He smiled as Indian dancers twirled to an honor song performed by the Toppenish Creek Singers.
	www.helenair.com /articles/2006/03/30/montana/000ind.prt (639 words)

	Yakama Nation Tribe and Bands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		A small portion of the tribe still lives away from the main reservation on the lands of the traditional fishing grounds of the Yakama people and they strongly rely on natural resources for their survival as well.
	www.deafnative.com /Yakama.htm (921 words)

	Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Visits Yakama Nation Indian Reservation; Announces New Initiatives to Fight ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		YAKAMA RESERVATION, Wash., March 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales today met with tribal leaders to discuss issues of importance to Native Americans.
		At the winter session of the National Congress of American Indians in Washington, D.C., methamphetamine's dramatic impact within Indian Country was perhaps the biggest issue of concern amongst tribal leaders.
		The Yakama Nation will be the first tribe to benefit from this initiative.
	releases.usnewswire.com /printing.asp?id=63134 (361 words)

	U.S. Geological Survey Activities Related to American Indians and Alaska Natives Fiscal Year 2001--Resource Activities
		The USGS, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Army Corps of Engineers are cooperating in a study of coastal erosion on lands of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe, located in Willapa Bay, Washington.
		USGS fishery biologists continue cooperating with the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation in an effort to restore steelhead trout in the Wind River basin in southwestern Washington State.
		USGS fishery biologists are partnering with the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation fishery biologists in an effort to assess and restore the Rattlesnake Creek watershed of the White Salmon River basin.
	www.usgs.gov /indian/2001report/resources.html (12017 words)

	Yakama Tribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Yakama Indian Reservation is comprised of 1,371,918 acres.
		The Yakama Reservation is primarily agricultural on the valley floor, with range or grazing in the foothills, and forested to the west and south.
		The Indian Health Service operates a 40,000 SF facility located near Toppenish.
	www2.ihs.gov /PortlandAO/about/Yakama.asp (162 words)

	Yakama Nation Cultural Heritage Center
		Of the original 10.8 million acres of Yakama lands; 1.3 millions acres were set aside by the Treaty of 1855 as the Yakama Reservation.
		The first formal Yakama Indian Agency was established in 1859.
		The Yakama people called the area Mool Mool because of the spot where the water bubbles out of the ground, making a sound similar to "Mool Mool." The agency was thereafter moved approximately 30 miles east to present day Toppenish.
	www.yakamamuseum.com /showpage.php?pageid=94a8db57 (509 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans and Designation of Areas for Air Quality ...
		In other words, EPA policy called for not including land within the exterior boundaries of the Yakama Indian Reservation as part of the Yakima Group I area unless there was information showing that sources within the Yakama Indian Reservation contributed to the PM-10 violations recorded on state lands.
		Accordingly, under the authority of section 110 (k) (6) of the CAA, EPA is revising the boundary of the Yakima NAA to exclude the portion within the exterior boundary of the Yakama Indian Reservation.
		At the time of determination of the boundaries of the Yakima Group I area, there was no technical information provided by Washington indicating that sources on the Yakama Indian Reservation contributed to the violations of the PM-10 NAAQS that had been recorded on monitors in the city of Yakima.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-AIR/2005/February/Day-07/a1994.htm (2205 words)

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		The Yakama Indian Reservation contains 1.3 million acres, one million of which are in Yakima County.
		The reservation has a population of approximately 30,000, 23,000 which are non-Indians.
		Whenever the county is considering a land use decision on the Yakama Indian Reservation, the tribe is given notice.
	indian.senate.gov /1998hrgs/0407_js.htm (2428 words)

	Columbia Magazine - Maude Lillie Bolin
		Her father, Nevada Lillie, was an early white settler on the Yakama Indian Reservation, in the Yakima River valley, who had crossed the plains to settle in Washington Territory.
		Unlike reservation land, the allotments (with the granting of a fee patent approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs) could become deeded land vested in the owner's name and sold to white settlers.
		The results of the act were sometimes disastrous, as Indians who were uninterested in farming sold or lost their land to taxes.
	www.wshs.org /wshs/columbia/articles/0404-a3.htm (2208 words)

	A grandfather's tales of wild horses come true
		Yakama men and leaving their bodies hanging from the trees as a reminder to the tribe that they were subjugated."
		The older Yakama women were caretakers of the horses.
		We pass this steep mesa the Yakama believe is the Place Where the Wind Lives, and finally leave even dirt roads in the slow climb up the steep canyons.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/204346_wildhorses18.html (1637 words)

	Yakama Indian Reservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		well-suited to the challenge she's posed for herself: She grew up in Central Washington, in Harrah (population 300), a town on the Yakama Indian Reservation.
		The Yakama Indian Reservation is a United States Indian reservation located on the east side of the Cascade Mountains of the state of Washington.
		It was created by the United States government as a homeland for the Yakama nation.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/y/ya/yakama_indian_reservation.html (113 words)

	A Hollywood ending for Yakamas' wild horses?
		Washines told her the wild horse is more than an environmental museum piece: It's a "symbol of the true Yakama spirit and strength that survived the most difficult times over the last 180 years." To link this sacred trust with a Hollywood movie was no small matter.
		Those who want the Yakama Nation to halter-train and/or saddle-break their horses before taking them home will have to pay an additional fee, to be negotiated with the tribe.
		However the adoptions go, the historic coming together of Hollywood and the Indians in the noble cause of saving potentially hundreds of mustangs from having to be destroyed each year has left a residue of good feelings with everyone involved.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/289227_yakamahorses19.html?source=mypi (1341 words)

	About Us
		Vogel was the first to recognize the nocturnal lights and other unidentified phenomena on the Reservation as a physical reality and legitimate subject for more careful study.
		Reported NL and other events reached a peak on the Yakama Reservation in 1972, when the objects actually became a problem for fire fighting crews in the area.
		In February of 1996, David Akers contacted the Yakama Indian Tribal Council to inquire about the possibility of conducting further research on the Yakama Reservation.
	www.vogelstudy.org /about.htm (715 words)

	USGS - Yakima River Basin Project - Bibliography
		Yakama Indian Nation, 1992, Integration of Cultural, Agricultural, Wildlife, and Fisheries Resources in the Toppenish Creek Corridor: A Tribal Enhancement Project.
		Yakama Indian Nation and Kandl, E.J., 1992, A Salt Balance Study for the Toppenish and Satus Creek Basins for the 1990-1991 Irrigation Season.
		Yakama Indian Nation and Kandl, E.J., 1993, A Study of Turbidity and Sediment Concentrations in the Agricultural Return Flows of the Toppenish Creek Basin on the Yakama Indian Reservation, Washington.
	wa.water.usgs.gov /projects/yakimagw/bibliography.htm (7850 words)

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		The ranch is located on the Yakama Indian Reservation which is centrally located in Washington State.
		The aforesaid confederated tribes and bands of Indians acknowledge their dependence upon the government of the United States and promise to be friendly with all citizens thereof, and pledge themselves to commit no depredations upon the property of such citizens.
		Apathy is prevalent among the reservation residents and I feel that I alone am not articulate enough to convince you that my testimony is real and accurate and not embellished with rhetoric.
	www.senate.gov /comm/indian_affairs/general/1998hrgs/0506_bg.htm (2092 words)

	Indian Rodeo News.com - Rodeo Queens
		Gina Northover, came to the Indian National Finals rodeo as the Yakama Indian rodeo association's Treaty Day's rodeo queen to compete for the national title of Miss Indian Rodeo.
		Gina, a daughter of a cattle rancher and little sister to past rodeo queens, is a enrolled member of the Yakama Indian Nation, and a descendant of the Cowichan Band from British Columbia Canada.
		Gina keeps herself busy in writing film scripts and working on her acting career, she hopes to see more Indian films and television shows in the next 10 years and may be that very person to help Indians in entertainment.
	www.indianrodeonews.com /MIRNA85.htm (787 words)

	Grey Poplars
		Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation, 447 U.S. 134, 162 (1980) (declining to address question whether State could enter reservation and seize stocks of cigarettes).
		Moreover, the CCTA is a federal statute of general applicability and it applies equally to Indians, even on the reservation, as it does to others.
		Thus, because Washington law requires that cigarettes destined for sale to Indians be pre-approved by the Washington State Department of Revenue, any cigarettes without such pre-approval are considered contraband under federal law if the quantity requirements are met.
	www.law.com /regionals/ca/opinions/mar/0035841.shtml (893 words)

	Andrew George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Andrew Joseph George of Brownstown, on the Yakama Indian Reservation, was a treasure trove of traditional songs and stories, and the history of his ancestors in the Palouse and Nez Perce Tribes.
		He was removed by the U.S. Army to the Nez Perce Reservation as a child.
		There he grew up surrounded by traditional Indian people, who taught him the songs, spiritual beliefs and practices, and epic stories of their ancestors. For much of his adult life, Mr.
	www.arts.wa.gov /progFA/heritageAwd/1989_a_george.htm (144 words)

	The Daily News Online
		The Yakama Nation has begun preparing a wildlife management plan they believe will better help them understand how plants and animals best coexist on the reservation.
		American Indians believe the horse was already on the land, much like any other native species, Washines said.
		At one time, the Yakama Nation's wild horses numbered more than 15,000, but the herds were managed and used on a daily basis, Washines said.
	www.tdn.com /articles/2004/08/13/this_day/news01.txt (909 words)

	Tribal Connections - Health News - Health News Briefs - June 2004
		SEATTLE -- Polly Olsen (Yakama) has been named the new Director of the Native American Center of Excellence (NACOE) in the School of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, one of four such centers for Native Americans in the United States.
		Although the survey -- of Indian women living in one urban area -- cannot give an accurate prevalence figure for HIV, Walters finds that the rate is consistent with estimates from the Indian Health Service, which puts the prevalence of HIV among Native Americans at from 1 to 3 percent.
		"Generally, American Indians are ignored or left out of the national conversation with respect to HIV risk, and, hopefully, these data will spark national interest in Native women and communities, and highlight how this disease knows no boundaries," Walters said.
	www.tribalconnections.org /health_news/health_briefs/june2004.html (1300 words)

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