Pit River
The Pit River Indian tribe traditionally occupied lands along the Pit River in the far northeastern part of California, which included Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak to the Warner Range. The tribe is made up of 11 bands including the Achomawi, Aporidge, Astariwawi, Atsuge, Atwamsini, Hanhawi, Hewisedawi, Ilmawi, Itsatawi, Kosalextawi, and Madesi and spoke the languages of Achumawi and Atsugewi, a branch of the greater Hokan linguistic family. Like other northern California Indians, they lived by hunting, gathering and fishing, with their main foods being fish, acorns, grasshoppers, plants, and small animals. In the mid-19th century, they numbered about 3,000. Today there are around 1,800 tribal members living on a number of rancherias and on the Pit River, Round Valley and X-L Ranch reservations.