Votes from members of the Yakama Nation may not be divided by legislative boundaries in future elections, according to draft maps released Tuesday by the Washington State Redistricting Commission.

More than 150 years ago, a federal clerk misfiled a map showing the rightful boundaries of the Yakama Nation Reservation. That led federal authorities to give big chunks of Tribal land to the ...

In return, the Yakama Nation was allowed to live on a reservation ... more Yakama land for the nascent state, drawing new boundaries on new maps. One removed an additional 140,000 acres from ...

“The Yakama Nation will never ... dramatically change the boundaries of the Yakama Indian Reservation – one cut out nearly half a million acres – the reservation map disappeared soon after ...

The Yakama Nation has long claimed the land as within its boundaries, including in its published maps. But Klickitat County officials say the land has clearly been in the county's jurisdiction ...

The Yakama Nation contends the land — about 29 square miles — is within the reservation boundary as defined by the Treaty of 1855. However, the original treaty map was misplaced and ...

“I hear people every day talk about going up to the mountain and now feeling better coming back,” Washines, a Yakama Nation citizen ... of the reservation’s boundaries.