The XL Ranch Indian Reservation, 1969-11-18

Item — Box: 67, Folder: 12

Identifier: CAC_CC_009_2_67_12_0005

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The XL Ranch Indian Reservation was created in 1938 in response to the illegal takeover of the Pit River Indians' traditional homeland. The reservation has been held in trust by the United States government for the benefit of the Pit River Indian bands, but no formal designation of trust beneficiaries has ever been made. Recently, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has recommended that the reservation be given to the Pit River Home and Agricultural Cooperative Association, a group of eleven families (some of whom are not even Pit River Indians), to the exclusion of the 500 other Pit River Indians. This recommendation has caused bitterness among the remaining Pit River Indians.