Pit River Indians reject financial settlement
About This Item
KPIX Eyewitness News report from December 26th 1970 in Shasta County (California) featuring a press conference by Pit River Indians (including Ross Montgomery Sr), who are rejecting a financial settlement offer from PG&E in order to resolve a dispute over ownership of ancestral lands. One spokeswoman makes an emotional declaration during a press conference: "I'm tired of trying to be like a white person all the time ... to be forced into thinking like one. I'm an Indian! ... This is blood money as far as I'm concerned and I can't accept it."
- Type of material
- archival news film
- Duration
- 1:17
- 16mm, color co-magnetic silent/sound film
- Rights for this video belong to
- CBS5 KPIX-TV
- Date aired
- 12/26/70
- Originally aired on
- KPIX-TV
- Identifier
- KPIX 110617
- Views
- 5651
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