Yakama Tribe Research Paper

The Yakama tribe spoke in a Sahaptian dialect of the Penutian language and called themselves Pakintlema meaning "people of the gap," reflecting the location of their villages near Union Gap on the Yakima River. Since the Yakama were introduced to horses they hunted buffalo and adopted some of the lifstyles and elements of the Great Plains. The Yakama Nation (formerly Yakima), was a consolidation of 14 bands, or tribes. The Yakama tribe lived along the banks of the Columbia, Wenatchee, and northern branches of the Yakima Rivers, with fast flowing rivers, lakes, forests and prairies. The climate consists of warm summers and cold, snowy winters. The animals who lived around Yakama territory included elks, deer, mountain goats, groundhogs, coyotes, raccoons, bears, foxes, porcupines, weasels, beavers and hares. The …show more content…
At almost the same time Seattle, still a village, was attacked by neighboring Indians. It appeared as though the entire region was going into wars. The Yakama war itself consisted of a series of short skirmishes with relatively few deaths on either side. Notable battles occurred in present-day Tacoma, Seattle, and even as far east as Walla Walla. Although limited in its magnitude, territorial impact and losses in terms of lives, the conflict is often remembered in connection to the Battle of Seattle, which occurred in January 1856, and to the execution of a central figure of the war, Nisqually Chief Leschi on February 19, 1858. The contemporaneous Yakima War may have been responsible for some events of the Puget Sound War and it has never been clear that the people of the time made a strong distinction between the two conflicts.After Nisqually Chief Leschi had traveled to Olympia to protest the terms of the treaty that had been negotiated the previous

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