Tự điển chuyên ngành nông nghiệp thế giới Vol1 - Bắc Mỹ - Vần Y | 386 Yakima Yakima The Yakima Pakiut lema lived on the lower course of the Yakima River in south-central Washington and now live with the Klickitat as the Confederated Tribes of the Yakima Indian Reservation of Washington. They speak a Sahaptin language of the Penutian phylum and numbered over six thousand in the mid-1980s. Bibliography Howard James H. 1966 . The Dakota or Sioux Indians A Study in Human Ecology. Vermillion University of South Dakota Museum. Woolworth Alan R. 1974 . Ethnohistorical Report on the Yankton Sioux. New York Garland Publishing. Bibliography Daugherty Richard D. 1973 . The Yakima Peoples. Phoenix Ariz. Indian Tribal Series. Schuster Helen H. 1982 . The Yakimas A Critical Bibliography. Bloomington Indiana University Press. Yankton ETHNONYMS Nakota Wiciyela The Yankton are one of the seven main divisions of the Siouan-speaking Dakota Sioux Indians. Prior to the early seventeenth century the Yankton were located in present-day southern Minnesota where they practiced a hunting farming and gathering way of life. During the seventeenth century they were forced by the indirect pressures of European contact to migrate from their homeland in a southwesterly direction to the open plains eventually ending up in present-day southeastern South Dakota. Beginning in the 1830s disease declining bison herds and hostilities with other Plains Indian groups began to take their toll on the Yankton and the culture was in decline. About this time they numbered around three thousand people. By 1860 the Yankton had ceded all of their lands to the United States government and were settled on reservations in North and South Dakota. In the 1970s Yankton living on the Crow Creek and Yankton reservations in South Dakota and on several reserves in Canada numbered approximately forty-five hundred. With the move to the plains bison hunting became the center of Yankton economic life though gathering and cultivation of maize beans squash and other crops continued to be .
