Their reservation, along the Yakima River, covers an area of approximately 1.2 million acres (5,260 km2).

Your drunken dive into a shallow pool on the Yakima River.

It is the source of the Yakima River.

Utilizing water diverted from the Yakima River, it is about 14 miles long and averages 12 feet wide.

He built a sawmill west of the current town site in 1879, diverting water from the Yakima River to turn its wheels.

Only about 1% of the discharge into the Yakima River is natural.

The Yakima River provides irrigation for the dry but fertile land in the valley, and irrigated agriculture is the economic base.

The Yakima River and its tributaries have been heavily altered for the purpose of irrigated agriculture.

As a result, discharge statistics for the Yakima River are heavily affected by the irrigation system.

And then, deeper into the valley, appears the first of what will become a signature sight: a vineyard sloping to the Yakima River.