The Madesi tribe (pronounced as Mah-day-see)[2] are an Indigenous group of Native Americans who once thrived in the Big Bend region of the Pit River in northeastern California of the United States,[3] the most down-stream section (AKA the Madesi Valley) of the Pit River (Ajumma) in the Pit River Tribal territory.
The other two bands of the Pit River Tribe speak dialects of a second, distinct but related language, called by anthropologists Atsugewi.
[5] The historic homeland of the other eight bands that share the Achumawi language extended to Goose Lake.
On the south side of the Pit River the Atsugewi language group consisted of two distinct bands (now part of the Pit River Tribe) living in the Hat Creek Valley and Dixie Valley.
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