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Pit River

American  
[pit] / pɪt /

noun

  1. a river in N California, flowing S and W from the Modoc Plateau to the Sacramento River. 200 miles (320 km) long.


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“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 Brandy McDaniels of the Pit River Nation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025

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

The 11 bands of the Pit River Tribe consider the Medicine Lake Highlands area near Mount Shasta as their ancestral homeland.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2025

“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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