Yakima, Native Americans of the Sahaptian language family and of the Plateau region culture area. Formerly occupying considerable territory on the Yakima and Columbia rivers in eastern Washington, the Yakima now live with other peoples on the Yakima Indian Reservation in the south-central part of the state, near the city of Yakima. They call themselves Waptailmim ("people of the narrows") after their principal village, which was situated at the narrows of the Yakima River. They came into contact with traders and missionaries early on, and, in 1855, along with other Native American peoples, made a treaty with the federal government by which they ceded most of their territory and agreed to settle on the present reservation. Originally, they were salmon fishers, root diggers, berry pickers, hunters, and active traders. They sometimes crossed the Rocky Mountains to hunt buffalo on the Great Plains. The chief occupations of the modern Yakima are farming and livestock raising. Today about 8,000 people claim to be of Yakima descent.

Юрок, Native American people of the Algonquian-Ritwan language family; southernmost of the peoples inhabiting the Pacific North-west Coast culture area. Several thousand Yurok lived in small villages on the banks of the lower Klamath River in north-western California when they were first encountered by Europeans in the 1770s. In the mid-19th century, a reservation was established in the area.

The Yurok wore animal hides and subsisted mainly on salmon and acorns. They placed great emphasis on property and had an elaborate legal system for settling any disputes about it. Because the Yurok lacked any chiefs or political organization, individual families rather than the people as a whole held the important fishing and gathering rights over an area. Wealth was accumulated primarily in the form of dentalia (tooth-shaped mollusc shells), woodpecker scalps, and furs. Marriage was accomplished through an exchange of these items, and men and women enjoyed a fairly equal status. Although Yurok culture has largely vanished, today roughly 5,000 people, living mainly in the same region, claim Yurok ancestry.