Pit River
Americannoun
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The Pit River Nation, which spearheaded the campaign for the designation, considers the Medicine Lake Highlands area near Mt.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025
“For the Pit River people, it’s the actual place of our creation and is a very sacred place for us in the narrative of our peoples,” said McDaniels.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2025
And the Pit River Nation is requesting designation for roughly 200,000 acres of their ancestral territory and spiritual sites in Sáttítla, or the Medicine Lake Highlands, which encompasses striking volcanic formations in Northern California.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024
“We rely on the waters and the food and the medicines that come from this area, and we need it to be a healthy, whole and intact place,” the Pit River Nation’s McDaniels said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024
Though here classed as a distinct family, the status of the Pit River dialects can not be considered to be finally settled.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley
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