GC6YGVW Mondo's NAT #637 - Yakama
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 12/26/2016 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 02.257 W104° 56.567 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
       

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Native American Tribe series.

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Yakama

The Yakima (as it was spelled at the time) a Shahaptian tribe, were living on the banks of the Columbia, Wénatchee, and northern branches of the Yakima Rivers, when Lewis and Clark came along in 1806. Numbering about 1,200 people at the time, they called themselves Waptailmim, "people-of-the-narrows," or Pakintlema, "people of the gap," from the situation of their village near Union Gap on the Yakima River. At that time, they primarily lived on salmon, roots, berries and nuts. By the treaty of 1855, they and 13 other tribes gave up the territory from the Cascade Mountains to the Snake and Palus Rivers, and from Lake Chelan to the Columbia River, and were to form the Yakima Reservation under Kamaiakan, a Yakama chief. However, before the treaty could be ratified the Yakima War, broke out, and it was not until 1859 that the provisions of the treaty were carried into effect. Today, the vast majority of the over 8,000 tribal members live upon the Yakama Reservation in south central Washington. (The official spelling of the Yakama was changed by the tribe in 1994 from Yakima to Yakama in 1994 to reflect the native pronunciation.)

 

06/19/2019 By FeatheredFriends
Well I finally made it to Colorado. I visited with my niece and then had a couple of hours to do some caching in area before heading back to the hotel.. I mainly did some more of the Mondo series. Fast find. Thanks " mondou2" for a fun time in the area. TFTC.

06/17/2019 By sujayne
SL TFTC!! On a geocaching adventure with yalehockeymom, looking for counties, geo-art and old caches. We are having a blast. signing logs with our full names or sometimes sj and yhm to save space. Thanks to all the COs!

06/17/2019 By yalehockeymom
Today Sujayne and I started off to Terryall to find the oldest in Colorado. From there we went to Pikes Peak and finshed the day caching north of Denver.
Many thanks for all the fun!

05/03/2019 By queen79b
Tftc

03/29/2019 By scavengerhunting
It was my mom's birthday today, and she wanted to go geocaching for the day! It was a bit cold today with the rain and wind, but we managed to get 46 of our 56 cache goal. We had to get the last 10 the next day. TFTC!

Cache: 32 / 56

10/05/2018 By THEINCREDIBLE4
Three generations of geocachers out today, having such a great time. Thanks for adding this cache to our adventure today.

10/05/2018 By speedythea7
Thanks for the fun cacheing time with my family, youngest of three generations caching today.

10/05/2018 By geo gpa and gma
Grandson hot caught up in the dirt bike riders. TFTC

07/31/2018 By bushmathster
Very nice hide. TFTC

07/31/2018 By kwinseck
TFTC!

07/23/2018 By AJperla
TFTC WITH TC

07/23/2018 By tc54915
Caching trip with Aj is coming to an end today. I drop her off at the airport this afternoon and than will work my way back home to WI. It was a great time seeing the sights and grabbing caches as we go... Tftc. And the.memories..

07/20/2018 By dtvman
More power caching today working toward the 100 for the hidden creatures. TFTC. On to the next.

01/13/2017 By dustyriver
Two county employees leaning on shovels. Took a bit to get this one done