Pit River
Americannoun
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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
“Time is running out,” Brandy McDaniels of the Pit River Nation said last month at COP 16, the United Nations biodiversity summit in Colombia, bringing the plea to a world stage.
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
On that day, the lake’s bathtub ring was gone, with water covering the supports on the Pit River Bridge as well as previously barren earth near the marina.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2024
Derivation: From a Pit River word meaning “lake.”
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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