Yakima vs. Pioneers

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Two humans with a different race are living together in the same house, but fighting over who gets what. The Yakima Wars describe just that. Due to the war between the U.S. military and the Yakima’s, the pioneers setting in the Pacific Northwest were affected by the location of the war, the relationships between the Indians and pioneers, the climate, and the lack of communication between the Indians and whites. All of these affects upon the pioneers contributed to the Yakima Wars. The war could not have been avoided because the whites wanted the land on which the Indians were on. Either way the war would have happened. The main reason the whites fought with the Indians was because the United States Government wanted the land on which the Indians were on, and the whites didn’t follow their treaty between the lands. That was just one reason the Indians and whites fought.

Yakima, Nez Perce, Cayuse, and Walla Walla. These groups of Indians were fighting against the U.S military, otherwise known as the Americans, on October 5th, 1855 in the Yakima valley.

The Yakima’s are a signal for “Runaway”. They also have a meaning that could be called as “Grown Family” or “Tribe Expansion”. Some people think that the Yakima Indians was the spectacle during the Yakima war from refugee woman. There are many more symbols and significant’s that is connected to the Yakima war. This group of Indians is a group that has many different spellings of their names such as Yakima, Yakama, and Yahakama. Yakama was the original spelling of the name. The Yakima’s spoke Penutian. The main Chief of the great Yakima was called Kamikin. The Yakima’s are known as the Saint Joseph, Roman Catholics.

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