Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the treatyground, Camp Stevens, Walla-Walla Valley, this ninth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, by and between Isaac I. Stevens, governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for the Territory of Washington, on the part of the United States, and the ...

2017年6月4日 · Known as the Treaty of 1855, the agreement confederated 14 tribes and bands into the Yakama Nation, but took away most of the land they and their ancestors had lived on for thousands of years.

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 Yakama Treaty confederated fourteen disparate tribal bands into the Yakama Nation while the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla Treaty placed three separate tribes onto one reservation, laying the foundations for contemporary Native political identities in the Columbia Basin.

We are the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation because we signed a treaty with the United States of America. The Treaty of 1855 makes us a sovereign nation.

The 1855 Yakama Treaty was an agreement between the United States government and the Yakama Nation that established a reservation for the Yakama people in present-day Washington State.

The Yakama Nation Treaty of 1855 was signed by Govenor Isaac Stevens and fourteen indian chiefs from various indian bands. Collectively, they now form the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation.

At the signing of the Treaty of 1855, which took place near present day Walla Walla, Washington, 14 tribes and Bands were confederated into the Yakama Indian Nation.

2 天之前 · The Yakama Nation is a sovereign Tribal Nation with reserved rights and privileges pursuant to the 1855 Treaty between the United States and the Yakamas (“Treaty”).1 In our Treaty, the Yakama Nation reserved rights that extend broadly throughout our 12-million-acre Treaty Territory.

Shyiks, Ochechotes, Kah milt-pah, and Se-ap-cat, confederated tribes and bands of Indians, occupying lands hereinafter bounded and described and lying in Washington Territory, who for the purposes of this treaty are to be considered as one nation, under the name of “Yakama,” with Kamaiakun as its head chief, on behalf of and acting for said ...