SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Klickitat County’s claim to a portion of the Yakama Indian Reservation, likely ending a dispute that has raged for more than a century.
The court denied the county’s appeal on Monday without comment. Klickitat County had argued that 121,465 acres in the southwestern portion of the reservation, including the eastern half of Mount Adams and the Glenwood Valley, were not actually included when the reservation was created by the Treaty of 1855.
The tribe said it had always understood that Mount Adams and a parcel known as Tract D was reservation land, and that position has been affirmed by numerous court cases in the past.