Yakama
Americannoun
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Yakamas,
plural
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Yakama
plural
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a member of a North American Indian people of Washington State.
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the dialect of the Sahaptin language spoken by the Yakama.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Yakama
First recorded in 1850–55 as Yackimas (plural); origin uncertain
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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
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
Amid racial tensions, pioneers built the hall in this rural Yakama Reservation town as a gathering place to keep the Filipino community together.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Mr. Anderson derives it from the Cree word moostoos, a buffalo, and supposes it to have been imported by the Canadians; but Father Pandosy makes musmus Yakama.
From Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon by George Gibbs
One of Rhodes’ photos shows what Shellenberger thinks is possibly Mool Mool, the freshwater springs that had drawn Yakamas and other Indigenous people to the area for centuries.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2023
The whole area is known to the Yakamas as “the mother of all roots,” or a natural seed bank, Harvey said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
Thomas told how Brando got them on the “Today” show in an effort to swell up support for the Yakamas.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
Siding with the Yakamas, Gorsuch explained that when the court is “dealing with a tribal treaty,” it must “give effect to the terms as the Indians themselves would have understood them.”
From Slate ● May 20, 2019
Yakamas number 3,000, and have a reservation in the southern part of the Territory, containing 783,360 acres, set apart for them by treaty of June 9, 1855.
From The Indian Question (1874) by Francis Amasa Walker
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