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The map approved Friday “fits the bill” because it keeps Yakama lands “pretty much all” in the 14th District, Yakama Nation Tribal Council Chairman Gerald Lewis said in an interview.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2024

Beloved Yakama linguist, educator and elder Virginia Beavert has died at age 102.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024

Other Yakama Nation citizens who knew her as a teacher and a friend also shared news of her passing in text messages.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024

Last month, the Biden administration announced its support for an agreement between Oregon, Washington, the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama tribes and environmental groups.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2024

Population.—There are two hundred and eighty-eight Wasco on the Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, and one hundred and fifty on the Yakama Reservation, Washington.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley