No, not the football team formerly known as Redskins.
I'm getting ready to write a scene with some natives of the Yakama area. I'm planning on having a woman being from the Taitnapam, while the man met her at school, and he's Alutiiq. Are the original residents of the area sort of like the Indians here in Oklahoma now, where as long as you say they're Choctaw or Pottawatomie, you don't have to get TOO specific?
Basically, I'm trying to avoid the standard, hey, you're all Yakama Indians, but it doesn't seem like the Mamachatpam really had major separate identities like so many tribes in the lower part of the country did and do. It seems like, hey, we all lived and fished along the same river, and the only thing that makes us different is just where we actually lived, if that makes sense. There's a large number of regional bands of natives, but not much differentiating them from each other, at least not now.
