At 10:47 AM 1/5/98 -0800, you wrote:

The way we heard it here in Yakima, the Yakama Nation changed the spelling
to correspond with the spelling in the original treaty of 1853 or 1854.

Denny Granstrand
Yakima, WA


>Yakima is an older, americanized spelling. In 1994, the Yakama Nationa
>requested that the spelling "Yakama" be used rather than "Yakima." -- or
>so says a book i just happen to be using at the moment: _The Northwest
>Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History_ ed. Joseph COne & Sandy Ridlington
>(Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1996).
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>Dale Goble
>Moscow
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