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Karen Cunningham
Economic Development Director
Cultural Heritage Center Director
In the beginning
"We are like the plants on this Earth. Our food was put here to feed us: Just like when we plant a garden. That is the way our Earth was in the beginning"
-Anaku Iwacha: The Way It Was
Traditionally, the people depended upon the salmon runs which annually ascended the Columbia River and its tributaries.
These formed their principal food supply, and together with game...
Roots...
...and other vegetables and fruits, provided a very bountiful supply of food.
"The Yakama people lived in small bands with permanent settlements along the various tributaries in this region. In the summer months they left these settlements and ascended into the high country to collect the foods that grew wild there."
Walla Walla Treaty Council 1855
Article 3, Yakama Nation Treaty
"...The right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places...together with the privilege of hunting, gathering roots and berries, and pasturing their horses and cattle upon open and unclaimed land."
U.S. Constitution Article VI, Clause 2
"...the laws of the United States...and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land..."
"Perhaps you have spoken straight, that your children will do what is right. Let them do as they have promised. That is all I have to say." - Kamiakin
June 4, 1855 Treaty Council Notes
Meninock v. State of Washington
"But my father said When we are dead who will be witness to what you promise? Then Governor Stevens said...I pledge the American to keep this promise as long as the mountain stands, as long as the sun shines and as long as the river runs."
-George Meninock, 1921
Dr. Virginia Beavert, Linguist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXXwSRkQWVc
Treaty Day Commemoration & Cultural Center Anniversary July 7, 2019
Yakama Nation Cultural Heritage Center
yakamamuseum.com
100 Spiel Yi Loop Toppenish, WA 98948
Open 7 days a week except holidays