Rubbing Shoulders with the Yakama Indians- Part one
I got to know the American Yakama Indians up close and personal! You won't believe their strange lives in the modern world. Join me for part one here but don't miss PART TWO : shape shifters, out of body experiences, and some crazy stuff. Oldest son Brad, left, me center, Austin on rt, back in those days It was 1996, and my youngest son, Austin, and I lived in the moderate-sized town of Yakima, in the high central desert area of Washington State, in the north western part of the US. The growing city was surrounded by mountains, many of which were old dormant volcanoes. There was Mt. Rainier, Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood. They all formed the sides of a great oblong geographical bowl which held the fertile Yakima valley. Mt. Hood sat in northern Oregon, across the Columbia River Gorge, but we could see it from Yakima and claimed it as one of our mountains. Apple, cherry and plum