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    The Pit River is a major river draining from northeastern California into the state's Central Valley. The Pit, the Klamath and the Columbia are the only...
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  • The Pit River Tribe is a federally recognized tribe of eleven bands of indigenous peoples of California. They primarily live along the Pit River in the...
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    The Pit River Bridge (officially the Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Bridge) is a double deck, deck truss, road and rail bridge over Shasta Lake in...
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  • Look up PIT, pit, or pits in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pit or PIT may refer to: Ball pit, a recreation structure Casino pit, the part of a casino...
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    Scenic Rivers Act (1972), it drains a scenic mountainous area of the Cascade Range, including part of Mount Shasta. It is a tributary of the Pit River, which...
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    Achomawi (category Pit River tribes)
    Ajumawi and Ahjumawi) are the northerly nine (out of eleven) bands of the Pit River tribe of Palaihnihan Native Americans who live in what is now northeastern...
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    Big Bend, California (category Pit River)
    northeastern California. It is named for a major change in course of the Pit River. Its population is 79 as of the 2020 census, down from 102 from the 2010...
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  • The Achumawi language (also Achomawi or Pit River language) is the indigenous language spoken by the Pit River people in the northeast corner of present-day...
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  • Pit 5 Dam is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric dam on the Pit River in Shasta County, northeastern California, about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Big Bend...
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    photograph was taken in Redding, California, at the Pit River Bridge and was titled "Rescue on Pit River Bridge". The photograph was taken with a Kodak Brownie...
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    endorheic (closed) Goose Lake rarely experiences southerly outflow into the Pit River, the most northerly tributary of the Sacramento. The Sacramento and its...
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    Rattlesnake Creek North Fork Pit River Pine Creek Parker Creek Thoms Creek Joseph Creek Goose Lake (historical) South Fork Pit River Fitzhugh Creek Dry Creek...
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    California before and after the arrival of Europeans. Achomawi, Achumawi, Pit River tribe, northeastern California Atsugewi, northeastern California Ahwahnechee...
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    California, near Lost River and Tule Lake. The county was named after them.: 216  The Achomawi (or Pit River Indians, for which the Pit River is named), and...
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    Burney Falls (category Pit River)
    is a tributary of the Pit River which has its mouth on the Lake Britton reservoir to the north. The falls are an example of river drainage regulated by...
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  • accordance with Tribal law or custom". According to the Statutes of the Pit River Tribe of California Code, marriage of a man and a woman requires that...
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    Goose Lake (Oregon–California) (category Pit River)
    watershed is normally endorheic, but sometimes flows into the Pit River, part of the Sacramento River watershed, during periods of high water following heavy...
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    Alturas is located at the confluence of the south and north forks of the Pit River, east of the center of Modoc County, at an elevation of 4,370 feet (1...
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  • New Zealand Pit River, or Pitt River in some spellings, a river in California, U.S. Pit River Tribe, who live along the river Pitt River Expedition, a...
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    Shasta Dam (category Dams on the Sacramento River)
    It proposed a large dam across the Sacramento River just downstream of its confluence with the Pit River near the copper mining town of Kennett, several...
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  • Bolshoy Pit (Russian: Большой Пит - "Great Pit") is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is a right hand tributary of the Yenisey. The Bolshoy Pit is 415...
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    Shasta Lake (category Pit River)
    created by an approaching river: the Sacramento River, the McCloud River, Squaw Creek, and the Pit River. The Sacramento River's source is the Klamath Mountains...
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  • River (Shasta County, California), a river tributary to the Pit River in Shasta County, California. Fall River (Clear Creek County, Colorado), a tributary...
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  • separate attacks, with the story of Peehee mu’huh updated to include the Pit River Indians as perpetrators of the massacre in which the Paiute victims were...
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    Fall River Mills is named after one of the rivers (Fall River) which runs near it. This river, along with the Pit River, water the Fall River Valley...
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    A pit latrine, also known as pit toilet, is a type of toilet that collects human waste in a hole in the ground. Urine and feces enter the pit through...
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    Puritan's Pit (also known as Preacher's Pit, The Devil's Pit or Gruti's Pit) is a large steep-sided pit in the south side of the valley of the River Lemon...
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  • The Pitt River Expedition is a series of expeditions in the U.S. state of California in the 1850s. The expeditions are named for the Pit River, one of...
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    A gravel pit is an open-pit mine for the extraction of gravel. Gravel pits often lie in river valleys where the water table is high, so they may naturally...
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  • Palaihnihan Atsugewi † Achumawi † (ís siwa wó disi, also known as Achomawi, Pit River Indian) The original reconstruction of proto-Palaihnihan suffered from...
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