Tribal Rights and Sovereignty of the Yakama Nation and Klamath Tribes Quinn Buchwald AP United States Government, 1st Period Ms. Peck December 17, 2013 The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation is a sovereign Native American tribal entity in Washington State. The tribe's reservation is located in southern Washington State and is east of the Cascade Mountains. The reservation is 2,185.94 square miles and has a population of over 30,000. The tribe itself has almost 11,000 enrolled members. The Yakama Tribe consists of multiple groups of Native Americans, including the Klikitat, Palus, Walla Walla, Wanapam, Wishram, and Yakama. These people have lived here for thousands of years and have developed their own very unique way of life and culture. They belong to a larger cultural group known as the Sahaptin people, who live throughout the Columbia River Basin and Plateau in central, eastern, and southern Washington State and in northern Oregon. The Yakama life style was dependant on their surroundings and environment. They heavily relied on wildlife, game, and fish for their sustenance, and where solely hunter-gatherer societies before European and American contact. Due to their close connection and reliance on the environment, the Yakama highly respected nature and were always aware of their impact upon it. They believe that everything has a purpose and an important place in the natural order. With the expansion the United States into the Pacific Northwest and the rapid encroachment of white settlers into their territory, the Yakama signed the "Treaty with the Yakima" with the United States government in 1855. The Yakama people were able to negotiate for many tribal rights due to their strategic and powerful po... ... middle of paper ... ...es: Sovereignty, Ethics, and Data-Sharing Issues." Environmental Health Perspectives 120 (2011): 6-10. Print. The Klamath Tribes. The Klamath Tribes, 2012. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. OFFICIAL SITE OF THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE YAKAMA NATION. Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, 2010. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. "A Short History of the Klamath Tribe." A Short History of the Klamath Tribe. The Klamath Tribes, 1985. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. United States. Department of the Interior. National Parks Service. Memorandum on Government-to-Government Relations with Native American Tribal Governments. By William J. Clinton. National Parks Service, 4 May 1994. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. United States. Dept. of State. "Treaty with the Yakima, 1855." Yakama Nation Archives. Print. "YN CHC :: Yakama History." Yakamamuseum.com. Yakama Nation Museum and Cultural Center, n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2013.
The Muckleshoot are a Native American tribe are a part of the Coast Salish people. their territory can be found located in Washington. They are recognized as the Muckleshoot Tribe, they are composed of generations of different tribal groups who inherited Puget Sound areas and occupied river drainages from the rivers confluence in Auburn to their reservations in the Cascades.
First of all, the Pomo tribe was located in North central California. Another example, the Pomo tribe lived in places that depended on the climate not too hot, not too cold. Pomo tribe lived in small communities of different types. One community was said to have 20 chiefs at a time and the head men lived in one main village. Also, the Pomo tribe lived in several types of shelter. Southeastern pomo used the tule reeds that grew in marshy areas around the Clear Lake to build houses. Last of all, the Pomo spoke 7 Hokan languages including Yakaya, Yokaia, Shanel, Kabinpek, and Gallinmero, and 2 more.
A small archipelago off the northwest coast of Britsh Columbia is known as the “islands of the people.” This island is diverse in both land and sea environment. From the 1700’s when the first ship sailed off its coast and a captain logged about the existence, slow attentiveness was given to the island. Its abundance, in both natural resources physical environment, and its allure in the concealed Haida peoples, beckoned settlers to come to the island. Settlers would spark an era of prosperity and catastrophe for the native and environmental populations.
United States. National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers. Federal Agency Implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Appendix G Two High-Profile Federal-Tribal Case Studies. Washington D.C.: , 2008. Web. .
The Navajo tribe is one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States. Originally from Canada, and descending from the Athabaskan tribes, they migrate...
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"A Brief History of the Trail of Tears." Cherokee.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014.
-- William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs negotiated treaties (agreements) with the Kansa and Osage Indians
The Nakotans were Native Americans of the Great Plains. They lived mostly in Montana, North Dakota, Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Nakotan’s lived in small villages near lakes and rice swamps and usually found shelter in tipis. Men and women had different vastly roles in the settlements. Men hunted and women did all of the housework. They spoke in the language of Nakota which was one of the few dialects of the language Dakota. The Nakotans were originally part of a nation called the Sioux, but eventually broke away from the tribe, which separated into 3 different bands. These three bands were Dakota, Lakota and Nakota. The Nakota tribe has other names, including the Yankton’s and Assiniboine’s. By examining the how the Nakotans used to live, a depiction forms of a tribe that was powerful, brave, and eventually, of a tribe
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Despite the common misconception of all Native Americans fit under a generic umbrella of commonality, each tribe/subdivision of a tribe, have their own distinct identity and custom. The migration of differencing tribes can be compared to France walking into Switzerland to claim it as theirs. This “invasion” here begins with the movements of two tribes of the Apache, the Lipans and the Ka-Ta-kas. While the Wichita manages to push the Lipans south, the Ka-Ta-kas, with the friendship of the well-resourced Kiowa, are able to establish a foothold in the region despite the opposition from the Wichita. This relationship, during this period of time, is contentious one at best (Baird, 50).
The treatment of Native Americans has been a struggle since the founding of the United States of America; however, following the American Revolution, the life of a number of tribes was even more threatened by the new government. The Western Indians’ “Message to the Commissioners of the United States” informs readers of the goals of the United States and the goals of their own tribes. The Western Tribes reveal that the policy and treaties with the United States were about taking the land from the Western Indians, and conversely, the tribes’ goals were to keep their land and to finally attain peace.
After losing the Indian Wars of the 1870s, the United States created several smaller reservations for the Native populations and the government confiscated 7.7 million acres of the Sioux’s sacred Black Hills. The government assigned the Oglala to live on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In the 1900s, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the federal government to pay the Sioux tribes millions of dollars in compensation for illegally taking the Black Hill, but the Oglala’s desire to have the Black Hills returned to them remains strong and they refuse to accept settlement money.11
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