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Pit River

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Pit River 1  (pt)
n.
See Achomawi.

Pit River 2  (pt)
A river, about 322 km (200 mi) long, of northern California flowing south and west to the Sacramento River.


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Meanwhile, at northern California's Medicine Lake, a vision questing area of great importance to the Pit River Tribe, Bush administration officials in the BLM and Forest Service in November 2002 reversed minimal protections provided just two years earlier, and approved a geothermal power plant within one mite of the lake.
The Pit River and other tribes have used it since time immemorial for ceremonies and healing.
On May 7, 1999, Smithsonian officials announced that they would return the preserved tissue to the Redding Rancheria and Pit River tribes in Butte County.
 
 
 
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