Washington state’s first governor described the Yakama Indian Reservation's southwestern border ambiguously, hence Klickitat County’s now failed claim to the reservation.
Resolving a territory dispute that goes back to 1855, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Klickitat County’s claims to a portion of the Yakama Indian Reservation.
Predating the treaty, settlers were anxious to move into parts of Washington Territory that had been home to Native Americans for millennia.signed and move Natives onto reservations so that those settlers could settle.
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