Major landowners in the valley include federal and state agencies and the Yakama Indian Nation.

It is named after the Klickitat tribe of the Yakama Indian Nation.

Antoine Bertram was a Yakama Indian who moved to the Thorp area with the Charles Splawn and the F. M. Thorp families.

Keneho, another friendly Indian of Yakama descent, was paid ten dollars by Charles Splawn for each trip to carry the mail over the Snoqualmie Trail to and from the Taneum Station post office.

The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 made it legal for the Yakama Indian Nation to sell their lands, and began to draw settlers into the area.

The community is near the Yakama Indian Reservation.

Following the Bannock War, the Northern Paiute bands she was associated with were deemed untrustworthy and forced to march to the Yakama Indian Reservation ( in Washington Territory ), where they endured great deprivation.

Yakama Indian Teepee-Edward Curtis collection-1910.

* Treaty with the Yakama, 1855, Washington State Governor's Office of Indian Affairs.

* Online Highway: Yakama Indian Nation

In the series Carter was of Sioux ancestry ; Larry Hovis was partly of Yakama Indian ancestry.

The Yakama signed one of the treaties negotiated during the Walla Walla Council of 1855, and the Yakama Indian Reservation was established.

An section of the trail is on the Yakama Indian Reservation, which requires special permits.

In a decision was written by Judge Ronald M. Gould, the court denies the request of the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Colville, and Yakama Indian tribes, which wanted the bones to be turned over to them for burial, holding that the remains do not fall under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and can be studied under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act.

In June 2005, the team was purchased by the Yakama Indian Nation and was renamed the Yakama Sun Kings ( from Yakima to Yakama ) to honor the Nation.

Although the Yakama Indian Nation announced they had shut down team operations on April 10, 2008, due to the franchise's financial losses, potential investors continue to meet with the team's owners in order to keep the team afloat.

The Yakama Indian Reservation is a United States Indian reservation located on the east side of the Cascade Mountains in southern Washington.

In a number of instances — e. g., the Yakama Indian Reservation — tribes have identified open and closed areas within reservations.

The Klickitat River rises in the high Cascades near Tieton Peak, in northwestern Yakima County, in a remote corner of the Yakama Indian Reservation.

The school is named after Kamiakin, a chief of the Yakama Tribe in the 19th century, and a leader of the American Indian side in the Yakima War.

Although the Wishrams were included in the Treaty of Yakima, they resisted removal to the Yakama Reservation.

Lillie platted the north of her land and these tracts became the first deeded land to be sold on the Yakama Nation Reservation.

Ensconced in the heart of the Yakima Valley in Washington State, the city lies inside the boundaries of the Yakama Nation's Reservation.

* Yakama Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land, Washington United States Census Bureau

Most Kalapuya Indians were removed to the Grand Ronde Agency and reservation, although some ended up at Siletz Reservation, Warm Springs Reservation or Yakama Reservation.

* Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Washington ( formerly the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation of the Yakama Reservation )

The conflicts over the possession of land between the Indians and the ‘ American ’ settlers led the Americans in 1855, by the ' treaties ' at the Walla Walla Council, to coerce not only the Cayuse, but also the Walla Walla and the Umatilla tribes, to the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon ; fourteen other tribal groups to the Yakama Indian Reservation in southern Washington State ; and the Nez Perce to a reservation in the border region of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

Roughly half of the tribal population live on or near the reservation, which is also home to about 300 Indians enrolled with other Tribes, such as the Yakama, Tenino ( Warm Springs ), and Nez Percé, as well as 1, 500 non-Indians.

That same year, gold was discovered in the newly established Yakama reservation and white miners encroached upon these lands.

The Yakama people were forced onto a reservation south of the present city of Yakima.

The religion began to be practiced by many unrelated peoples along the Northwest Coast of North America, such as the Klallam, Quinault, Lower Chehalis, Yakama, Hoh, Quileute, and Hupa, among others.

On February 4, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel rejected the appeal brought by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Umatilla, Colville, Yakama, Nez Perce and other tribes on the grounds that they were unable to show any evidence of kinship.

The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, or simply Yakama Nation ( formerly Yakima ), is a Native American group with nearly 10, 000 enrolled members, living in Washington.

His winter campaign against the Yakama tribe, led by Chief Kamiakin, and his execution of the Nisqually chieftain Leschi ( for the crime of having killed Stevens ' soldiers in open combat ), among other deeds, led a number of powerful citizens in the territory to beg Pierce to remove Stevens.

Tribes and nations including the Yakama, Nez Perce, and Umatilla used the area for hunting, fishing, and gathering plant foods.

Eventually, most surviving Cayuse left the Walla Walla area and joined neighboring tribes including the Nez Perce, Umatilla and Yakama.

The area borders on Yakama Gulch to the west, overlooks Commencement Bay to the north, and has sweeping views of Old Tacoma to the east.

The Yakima River is a tributary of the Columbia River in south central and eastern Washington State, named for the indigenous Yakama people.

The United States Forest Service manages, and the Yakama Nation owns within the basin.

It is named after the Yakama tribe of Native Americans.

The Kittitas Valley was occupied by the Kittitas ( Yakama Ichishkíin Sínwit: Ki-tatash ) or Upper Yakama tribe, as well as hunting and food gathering parties of Cayuse and Nez Perce.

Also in 2004 the Yakama Tribe bought the old Hi-Country juicing plant and currently produces store brand apple juice and other beverages.

The treaty of 1855 between the United States government, representatives from thirteen other bands, tribes, and Chief Kamiakin resulted in the Yakama Nation relinquishing of their homeland.

: Report of Yakama Agent, James H. Wilbur