Yakama
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The Yakama are a Native American tribe with nearly 10,851 members, based primarily in eastern Washington state.
Yakama warrior c. 1913, photographed by Lucullus V. McWhorter
Yakama woman, c. 1911
Yakama tipi, by Edward Curtis, 1910
Profile of a Yakama man by DeLancey W. Gill, 1906.
Yakima War
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The Yakima War, also referred to as the Plateau War or Yakima Indian War, was a conflict between the United States and the Yakama, a Sahaptian-speaking people of the Northwest Plateau, then part of Wa
Illustration of U.S. Army artillerymen in 1855
Marker at the site of the ambush of McAllister and Connell, photographed in 2005
Tyee Dick, pictured here later in life, was one of Leschi's soldiers at the Battle of White River. After the war he would rise to the chiefdom of the Puyallup.
Washington governor Isaac Stevens, pictured here in 1862, was joined by Oregon governor John Curry in calling for the dismissal of Gen. Wool.