When was yakima wa founded

With tribes and bands allied by blood and speech, they controlled a vast area of what is now Central Washington. Even today, there is but vague distinction between the elements that combined to form it. In the process of joining together, identities of the smaller groups have long since disappeared.

All the descendants on the Yakima Reservation represent the components of this once powerful Indian Nation. The Yakamas themselves originated from several groups that occupied the Yakima Valley from the headwaters of the Yakima River, in the Cascades, to the stream's junction with the Columbia.

Next were the Ahtanum-lema who lived on the banks of the Ahtanum Creek; the Pisko-pum, Sagebrush People of the Toppenish plains; the Thap-pah-nish of Toppenish Creek; the Setass-lema on Satus Creek and the Chim-na-pum of the lower Yakima to the Columbia and down the latter to where that mighty flow begins bending westward.

A small band, the Kow-was-sa-yee lived on the Columbia, opposite the mouth of the Umatilla River. West of them were the Pish-quit-pah, and a little further down the north were the Skeen-pah.

Scattered along the Columbia, from the mouth of the Snake up to Priest Rapids roamed the So-kulks, closely related to the Yakamas, who called them Wana-pum or River People. With the possible exception of the River Rock People and Whirlpool People, who have been classified as Salishan stock tribes, the foregoing divisions were members of the Shahaptian linguistic family.

Both the River Rocks and the Whirlpools have spoken the Shahaptian tongue of the Yakamas since historic times. In the early 's very few explorers, fur traders or missionaries ventured off the heavily traveled, arteries of the Snake and Columbia Rivers to come up the Yakima River.

The Catholic missionaries coming to instruct the Indians were apparently the first group to really establish themselves in the Yakima Valley, but there is some uncertainty about their first locations. Another writer Theodore Winthrope in "Canoe and Saddle" refers to the fact that Fathers Pondosy and D'Herbomez were located on the Atinam Ahtanum some five years prior to his journey through the area in This mission on the Ahtanum near Tampico became known as the St.

Joseph Mission when the original St. Joseph's near Sawyer was abandoned in During the Indian Wars of which ranged spasmodically back and forth across central Washington, the priests abandoned the mission to seek protection elsewhere. The soldiers of the U. Regulars and the Oregon and Washington volunteers who were opposing the Indians, finding the mission deserted and a keg of powder buried on the premises jumped to the conclusion that the Fathers were aiding the Indians by furnishing them with ammunition and so set fire to the mission.

That was the inglorious end of the first mission on the Ahtanum. The Fathers spent the following years at Fort Simcoe and from there worked among the Wenatchee, Okanogan and Spokane tribes but not among the Yakima's.

It wasn't until that two of the Fathers undertook the re - establishment of the mission on the Ahtanum. The buildings were completed in and dedicated by Bishop Blanchet in Two of the Northwest's most notable missionaries, both energetic Jesuits, located at Ahtanum in and The first was Father Caruana and the second was Father Grassi. It is interesting to note that these two men were among the Valley's first orchardists, setting out an apple orchard near the mission in which was irrigated by water from the Ahtanum Creek.

Meanwhile, Father Caruana, whose special task was working among the Indians, in addition undertook the founding of both a church and a school in Yakima City Union Gap where a considerable population was gathering. The school was the beginning of St. A catholic mission Yakima-valley was established in President James Buchanan built Fort Simcoe in by sending an American garrison to deal with consistent encounters between white settlers and the native tribes.

The white settlers came abundantly in this region after the establishment of Fort Simcoe and the end of alleged wars with Yakima Indians. The city of Yakima was established in by the Northern Pacific Railway Company but nearly within one year it was shifted about 4 miles of its north due to a clash between the owners of the land and the Company.

Several horses were used to move away more than buildings on rolling logs to the new township. In the new town was officially named as North Yakima which was officially renamed as Yakima in , through the state legislature of Washington.

Today, with a population of nearly 92,, Yakima is considered as the largest city of Yakima County. The U. Army established Fort Simcoe in near present-day White Swan as a response to the uprising.

The Yakamas were defeated and forced to relocate to the Yakama Indian Reservation. Yakima County was created in When bypassed by the Northern Pacific Railroad in December , over buildings were moved with rollers and horse teams to the nearby site of the depot. The new city was dubbed North Yakima and was officially incorporated and named the county seat on January 27, The name was changed to Yakima in Union Gap was the new name given to the original site of Yakima.

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