I could have spent all day in the beautiful murals, in the recreated Yakima world.I drove from Tulalip to Skagit and then to Swinomish after Skagit closed at midnight. These photos and get out the door, even with the 5 year old in full Traditional finery mixed with futristic neon color. The self guided tour naturally ends with some brilliant portraits of young Yakimas in headdresses, feathers, and vivid face paint.

She thought it was wrong that they suffered.

I also read her all the stories pertaining to kids, which got sad. The 8 year old did well but the 5 year isn't reading reading enough to have stayed busy so I set her up in a quiet corner out the way where she could roll her ball around. The huts and structures, perhaps never to have to go back to a boring old house. My kids, who I want to have memories of a mother who tried to clue them in about history, couldn't help but want to climb into And exhibit after exhibit is engrossing, well done.

There are recordings of elders piped in explaining the folklore in one exhibit. The specific way children were viewed and taught is illustrated through dioramas, paintings, and eloquent signage. Almost every structure regularly built and used by the Yakima has been recreated inside. Was so much information, so much preserved! I read somewhere that the Yakima nation was less destroyed than other nations, which is why their cultural center has such a wealth of artifacts and information. There is also a small gift shop which you can browse after seeing the museum. The museum is small (there is a fee to enter) and doesn't take that much time to finish. The rest of the displays are dealing with the origins of the tribe as well as what happened to them after the war. While it did have mannequins of various tribal leaders, around the US, there was nothing about one of the greatest leaders of the Yakama tribe- Chief Kamiakan who lead the war and came the closet, of all Indian leaders, to driving out the whites and unifying the various tribes in the area. It left the reader thinking that all whites didn't care much for the tribe which was not true. The display that describes the Walla Walla council was accurate but the way it was worded it left out some important facts. Having lived in Washington state and being an author of the a book dealing with the Yakama wars (1855-58) I was hoping to gain new information about the tribe and the area.

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