Culture

MISSION
The Pit River Tribe’s Cultural Resource Representatives Committee consists of members from each of the eleven autonomous bands who are chosen by the band because of their knowledge and connection to the environment and its cultural resources. The Cultural Committee communicates closely with the Environmental and Natural Resources and Roads Department on a variety of issues. The Mission of the Committee is to promote protection and restoration of traditional environmental values and prevention of environmental degradation on Tribal Ancestral Lands.

PIT RIVER (ACHUMAWI, AJUMAWI, ATSUGEWI, APORIGE, ASTARIWI, ATWAMSINI, HAMMAWI, HEWISEDAWI, ILMAWI, ITSATAWI, KOSEALEKTE, MADESI) - The eleven bands of the Pit River Tribe have traditionally occupied lands along the Pit River and its tributaries, in the far northeastern part of the state. Their languages, Achumawi and Atsugewi, are closely related Hokan languages, belonging to a family of languages spoken by people from northern California south into Mexico and east across the Great Basin into the Southwest. Traditionally our way of life depended on fish and other river resources, as well as on acorns and other vegetable foods growing in the river valleys. Today the 2,000 or so tribal members live on the Alturas, Big Bend, Likely, Lookout, Montgomery Creek, Redding, Roaring Creek, and Susanville rancherias, as well as on the Pit River and Round Valley reservations.

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