Pit River Indians

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Film Date
6/24/70
Film Reference Number
KPIX 102422
Description
KPIX's Mike Lee reports from Shasta County in north eastern California on June 24th 1970 where a group of Pit River Indians are occupying a PG&E employee's holiday camp to reclaim ancestral land. Opens with silent views of a court house and the countryside followed by a press conference with an Indian spokesman: "Our primary objective all along has been the U.S. government and that they - not PG&E - hold all of our land. And that if we're trying to get land back we should be trying to get it back from the government."
Format
16mm newsfilm