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Yakama Nation Land Enterprise

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Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
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2003

Yakama Nation Land Enterprise

Yakama Nation Land Enterprise
YAKAMA NATION LAND ENTERPRISE

In an effort to consolidate, regulate, and control Indian land holdings, the financially self-sustaining Yakama Nation Land Enterprise has successfully acquired more than 90% of all the fee lands within the Nation’s closed area — lands which were previously highly "checker-boarded." The Enterprise’s land purchase program has allowed the Nation to expand industrial, business, and agricultural activities; tracts of land are used for housing, day care centers, ranger stations, longhouses, and for use by tribal education, foods, resource management, and cultural programs.

fee land, Indian land holdings, land acquisition, nation-owned enterprises, regulations, self-determination
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Native Nations: 
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
Resource Type: 
Honoring Nations Reports
Topics: 
Land/Jurisdiction
Useful Links: 
Swinomish Official Land Use Comprehensive Plan

"Yakama Nation Land Enterprise." Honoring Nations: 2002 Honoree. Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2003. Report.

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This Honoring Nations report is featured on the Indigenous Governance Database with the permission of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. 

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