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12 Ind. C1. Corn. 301
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Sand opposite to and
above mouth of Deschutes
River
Clikitats on Clikitat
120 estimate
river
Band on White Salmon
50 "
river 3 6
I1
It is a qnestionable mztter whether the tribes could
all have been consolidated in a council hzld in their own
couctry, arid thw~gh the negotLations were protracted, the
presence of the prircipal ckiefs of the nation and especially
the great authority of Ram-ai-a-kun the head C!-iief, exerted
a powerful influscce in promoting the general resnlt.
The coccurrenc5 of the several tribes in establishing
the Nation is universal, :k +; +;.
A map of the country ceded a d of the reservations
accompanies this report. (Pet. Ex. 476, pp. 26-27)
39. In transmitting the Yakima Treaty to the Secretary of the
Interior for Zransmission to the President and the Senate for rati-
fication, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in his communication
dated July 9, 1856, stated that under the provisions of the treaty the
various tribes listed therein had agreed to be confederated to one
nation, to be called the "Yakima Nation."
As we have previously found (Findings of Fact Nos. 9 and 10) the
Yakima Treaty was ratified on March 8, 1879, and thereby the confederated
tribes or bands as named in the preamble to the treaty became merged into
the newly formed Yakima Nation. The confederated Yakima Nation thus
became the successor in interest to the formerly separate tribal entities -
and all of the rights of former separate tribal entities which were merged