The Likely Rancheria is a federal
Indian reservation
An Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a federally recognized Native American tribal nation whose government is accountable to the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs and not to the state government in which it ...
belonging to the
Pit River Tribe, a
federally recognized tribe
This is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States of America. There are also federally recognized Alaska Native tribes. , 574 Indian tribes were legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United ...
of
indigenous people of California. The
ranchería is located in
Modoc County in northern
California.
["Likely Rancheria."]
''SDSU: California Indians and their Reservations." Retrieved 10 Feb 2020.
Likely Rancheria is large. It was purchased by the Pit River Tribe in 1922
[ and serves as their tribal cemetery.][ It has the distinction of being the smallest Indian reservation in the United States. It is located about southeast of the community of ]Likely
Likely may refer to:
*Probability
*Likelihood function
*Likely (surname)
*Likely, British Columbia, Canada, a community
* Likely, California, United States, a census-designated place
* Likely McBrien (1892-1956), leading Australian rules football ...
, in Modoc County.
Education
The ranchería is served by the Modoc Joint Unified School District.
References
* Pritzker, Barry M. ''A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. .
External links
Pit River Tribe
official website
Photo of Old Pete, Likely Rancheria, 1925
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Pit River tribes
Modoc County, California
American Indian reservations in California
Native American tribes in California
Federally recognized tribes in the United States