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YAH US KIN YAKIMA 



983 



Kelsemaht, on Flores id., Clayoquot sd., 

 w. coast of Vancouver id , with 76 inliabi- 

 tants in 1909. 



Yahnskin. A Shoshonean band which 

 prior to 1864' roved and hunted with 

 the Walpapi about the shores of Goose, 

 Silver, Warner, and Harney lakes, 

 Oreg., and temporarily in Surprise val- 

 ley and Klamath marsh, where they 

 gathered wokas for food. They came 

 sj)ecially into notice in 1864, on Oct. 14 

 of which year they became party to the 

 treaty of Klamath lake by which their 

 territory was ceded to the United States 

 and they were placed on Klamath res., 

 established at that time. AVith the Wal- 

 papi and a few Paiute who had joined 

 them, the Yahuskin were assigned lands 

 in the southern part of the reservation, on 

 Sprague r. about Yainax, wliere they 

 have since resided, although through 

 intermarriage with other Indians on the 

 reservation their tribal identity became 

 lost by 189S, since which time they have 

 been officially designated as Paiute. Gat- 

 schet, who visited them about 1884, says 

 they were then engaged in agriculture, 

 lived in willow lodges and log houses, and 

 were gradually aband( miiig their roaming 

 proclivities. The Yahuskin have always 

 been officially enumerated with the Wal- 

 papi, the aggregate population varying 

 between 1877 and 1891 from 135 to 166 

 persons. In 1909 they were reported at 

 103. 



Gahooskins.— Applegate in Ind. Aff. Rep., 90, 1866. 

 Yahooshkin.— Gatscht't in Cont. N. A. EthnoL, II, 

 pt. 1, XXXV. 1890. Yahooskin. — Treaty of 1864 in 

 Ind. Laws and Treaties, il, 663, 1903. Yahooskin 

 Snakes.— H. R. Rep. 98, 42d Cong., 3d sess., 4-19, 

 1873. Yahuskin.— Meac'ham in Ind. Aff. Rep., 52, 

 1870. 



Yaka. The Corn clans of the Keresan 

 pueblos 'at Laguna, Acoma, Santa Ana, 

 Sia, San Felipe, and Cochiti, N. Mex. 

 The Corn clans of Acoma (Kochinish, 

 Yellow; Kukanish, Red; Kuishko.sh, 

 Blue; Kuishtiti, Brown; and Kusesh, 

 ^Vhite) formed a phratry, as do the Yel- 

 low and Red Corn clans of Laguna, who 

 claim to have come originally from 

 Acoma. The Blue, Brown, and White 

 Corn clans of Acoma are now extinct. 

 The varying forms of the clan name 

 among the different Keresan villages are: 

 Laguna, Yaka-hano'^'i^; Acoma, Yaka- 

 hunoq':'^; Santa Ana, Yak'-hano; Sia and 

 San Felipe, Yaka-hano; Cochiti, Ydk'a- 

 hdnnch. The termination linno, etc., sig- 

 nifies 'people.' — Hodge in Am. Anthr., 

 IX, 349, 1896. 



Yaka.— Stevenson in 11th Rep. B. A. E., 19, 1894. 

 Yakka.— Bandelier, Delight Makers, i57, 1890. 



Yakchilak. A Kuskwogmiut Eskimo 

 village near the mouth of Kuskokwim r., 

 Alaska. 



Yachtshilagamiut. — Spurr and Post quoted by 

 Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 1902. Yakchilak.— 

 Baker, ibid. 



Yakima ( r«-A/-ni(t, 'runaway'). Anim- 

 portant Shahaptian tribe, formerly living 

 on both sides of the Columbia and on the 

 northerly branches of the Yakima (for- 

 merly Tapteal) and the Wenatchee, in 

 Washington. They are mentioned by 

 Lewis and Clark in 1806 under the name 

 Cutsahnim ( possibly the name of a chief) 

 and estimated as 1,200 in number, but 

 there is no certainty as to the bands in- 

 cluded under that figure. In 1855 the 

 United States made a treaty with the Ya- 

 kima and 13 other tribes of Shahaptian, 

 Salishan, and Cliinookan stocks, by which 

 they ceded the territory from the Cascade 

 rats, to Palouse and Snake rs. and from L. 

 Chelan to the Columbia, and the Yakima 

 res. was established, upon which all the 



participating tribes and bands were to be 

 confederated as the Yakima nation under 

 the leadership of Kamaiakan (q. v.), a 

 distinguished Yakima chief. Before this 

 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. The Paloos and certain other 

 tribes have never recognized the treaty 

 or come on the reservation. Since the 

 establishment of the reservation the term 

 Yakima has been generally used in a 

 comprehensive sense to include all the 

 tribes within its limits, so that it is now 

 impossible to estimate the number of 

 Yakima proper. The total Indian popu- 

 lation of the reservation was officially es- 

 timated at 1,900 in 1909, but of this num- 

 ber probably comparatively few are true 



