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- Pacific Northwest
In the record
The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Yakama (Yakima) as a party: Yakama Treaty, 1855.
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 2 cessions of land from Yakama (Yakima): about 12 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 2 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Yakima in Washington, ceded 1855 (area 364), about 12 million acres, ceded under Yakama Treaty, 1855.
5 court cases turned on their rights: United States v. Winans, Tulee v. Washington, Sohappy v. Smith (Belloni decision) and 2 more.
Today, Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Official names
Names in treaties and records
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty under documented pressure12 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
2 cessions. Follow Yakama (Yakima) through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Named in 5
Land recorded in this nation’s name 2, as named in the 1899 record
Party to 1
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- yakama.com/about/unclassified
The Yakima or Yakama Nation: Indian Reservation Treaty Details
- federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/01/30/2026-01899.txtprimary record
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
Research notes
NARA spells Yakima; treaty name uses Yakama.
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