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March 25, 2003
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Washington State, United States
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Early 1900s
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Edward S. Curtis
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"[The Yakima Indians, such as the woman pictured] roamed from northern Oregon to Canada and from the Bitterroots of Montana. Today the. . . .Yakima Indian Nation, the legal descendents of 14 nomadic tribes and bands whose archeology dates from 14,000 years ago, looks restively to the future from the relative confines of a 2,000-square-mile [5,180-square-kilometer] reservation, slightly larger than the state of Delaware. . . .
"But the old Yakimas required nearly ten times that. They fished a hundred miles [160 kilometers] from where they dug wild roots. They rode into Montana for Buffalo. They were hunters and food-gatherers, not farmers."
—Text from "Washington's Bountiful Yakima Valley," November 1978, National Geographic magazine
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