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Ethnic group

For other uses, see Yakima (disambiguation).

Ethnic group

The Yakama are a Native American tribe with nearly 10,851 members, based primarily in easternWashington state.

Yakama people today are enrolled in the federally recognized tribe, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation.

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Their Yakama Indian Reservation, along the Yakima River, covers an area of approximately 1.2 million acres (5,260 km²). Today the nation is governed by the Yakama Tribal Council, which consists of representatives of 14 tribes.

Many Yakama people engage in ceremonial, subsistence, and commercial fishing for salmon, steelhead, and sturgeon in the Columbia River and its tributaries, including within land ceded by the tribe to the United States.^{[citation needed]} Their right to fish in their former territory is protected by treaties and was re-affirmed in late 20th-century court cases such as United States v.

Washington (known as the Boldt Decision