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Black-and-white close-up of Selena LaMarr’s hands weaving a coiled basket, with completed baskets and materials beside her.
Selena LaMarr practicing Atsugewi basketryNational Park Service, Lassen Volcanic National Park; Hat Creek Atsugewi Historic Photograph Collection. The gallery credit field names Selena LaMarr; this is not treated as evidence that she photographed herself.
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Atsuge

Also find this entry through: Atsuge — historical Hat Creek grouping

Atsuge is a historical Hat Creek regional name within Atsugewi accounts. This entry follows place, named cultural teachers and the limits of historical scholarship, while linking to living Pit River communities today. It is not an additional modern band count or a claim that descendants disappeared.

Read the sources [1] Lassen Volcanic National Park, National Park Service [2] National Park Service [3] Thomas R. Garth / University of California Press, Anthropological Records 14(2),129–212

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Hat Creek Valley, northeastern California; historical regional context
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October 30, 2026
Names & relationshipsNPS uses Atsuge and Apwaruge for historical regional distinctions within Atsugewi and separately lists the present-day bands. This route does not assert Atsuge is a thirteenth present Pit River band, equate it with the modern Atsugewi band roll, or imply that living descendants disappeared. The broader Atsugewi profile remains linked for living-community context.
A source guide for a deeper dive.This entry provides a brief orientation and an organized reading path. A comprehensive deep dive has not yet been completed. Follow the annotated sources and distinguish primary community accounts from outside reference material.
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A scoped selected-content introduction with credited imagery. Further community-authored depth, primary historical context and community review remain gaps.

Assessment recorded October 30, 2026. This is separate from research completion and community review.

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These photographs have individual, documented connections to this entry. Their captions and source records define the people, place, object, and period shown; no one photograph represents every community within a broader label.

Selena LaMarr practicing Atsugewi basketry
National Park Service, Lassen Volcanic National Park; Hat Creek Atsugewi Historic Photograph Collection. The gallery credit field names Selena LaMarr; this is not treated as evidence that she photographed herself.

Source & image record ↗ · Public domain — item-specific NPS gallery API states Constraint: Public domain and GrantingRights: Full

Actual NPS people-page body read and complete album API read. Exact asset explicitly identifies Selena LaMarr and Hat Creek Atsugewi basketry and carries item-specific public-domain designation. Downloaded the official original JPEG unchanged and visually inspected complete available frame. It is already a close-up excluding her face; this is the archive-delivered composition, not a crop made here. No ceremony or restricted designation identified. Neither the design nor the one demonstrator is claimed to represent all Atsugewi cultural life. API PhotoCredit repeats the subject name; individual photographer remains unrecorded. Delivery copies are proportionally resized/recompressed from the complete archive-delivered frame. Card and page-background CSS may crop or overlay; the page banner preserves the full composition. This visual review does not increase substantive source counts or establish research completion. Scoped reuse for this reading route: one historical Hat Creek Atsugewi example, not a determination of Selena LaMarr’s modern band-roll membership, a government portrait, every constituent band or a modern boundary. Existing source-frame and delivery derivatives remain unchanged. Root viewed the full available delivery composition again; original item-specific NPS API clearance is retained from its cached record, not claimed freshly retrieved today.

Context and identification sources

Image, association, and reuse record reviewed 2026-10-30.

Full photographs are displayed proportionally above. A translucent background copy may be cropped by the viewport; it does not replace the complete image or its record.

The visual treatment does not change the research status, evidence, or remaining gaps recorded in this profile.

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  1. American Indian Heritage

    Read this selected account with its recorded authorship, period, perspective and access limits.

  2. Selena LaMarr

    Read this selected account with its recorded authorship, period, perspective and access limits.

  3. Atsugewi Ethnography — selected historical passages

    Read this selected account with its recorded authorship, period, perspective and access limits.

These are selected starting points. The full annotated collection, source perspectives, inspection limits and remaining research questions follow below. A starting guide is not an exhaustive history or community endorsement.

01

A Hat Creek name in context

The National Park Service distinguishes the Atsuge of Hat Creek Valley from the Apwaruge farther east in its Atsugewi account. Garth’s 1953 study uses the same regional distinction, based on fieldwork in 1938 and 1939. These are historical and interpretive categories. The Tribe’s modern constituent-band names and present membership cannot be reconstructed simply by equating each older name with a current roll.

Read the sources [1] Lassen Volcanic National Park, National Park Service [3] Thomas R. Garth / University of California Press, Anthropological Records 14(2),129–212

02

Named teachers and public cultural work

NPS records Selena LaMarr’s basketry and acorn-processing demonstrations beginning in 1952, later joined and continued by other named cultural teachers. The accompanying archival picture identifies her with Hat Creek Atsugewi basketry. It is one person’s public cultural work, not an image of every modern band member. The park’s account also describes tribal participation in collections and interpretation, making continuing community involvement visible.

Read the sources [1] Lassen Volcanic National Park, National Park Service [2] National Park Service

03

Reading historical basketry accounts carefully

Garth names Atsuge contributors and interpreters rather than providing an anonymous cultural inventory. His selected basketry discussion records Sarah Brown’s recollection of learning a coiling technique from a Maidu friend. That is an attributed personal account of learning and exchange, not proof of one origin for all basketry. His period judgments, population estimates and predictions about cultural loss are not adopted as present facts.

Read the sources [3] Thomas R. Garth / University of California Press, Anthropological Records 14(2),129–212

What needs further research

  • Compare community-authored preferred naming with dated historical scholarship; pasted ChatGPT essay is a lead, not verification.
  • Do not silently add Atsugé/Astuge spelling variants from the pasted essay without an inspected source.
  • Existing selected reviews are transferred with original dates/scopes; a short route is not a full reading of every underlying work. No present census, band-roll equivalence or community endorsement.
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GovernmentLassen Volcanic National Park, National Park ServiceSource 1

American Indian Heritage

Park overview describes Hat Creek seasonal travel, Atsuge and Apwaruge regional distinctions, and tribal collaboration on collections and interpretation. Relevant Atsugewi passages are separated from the page's other peoples.

Inspection: Content reviewed for the stated scope

Scope: Actual NPS page selected Atsugewi-relevant body: opening seasonal setting and Hat Creek paragraph lines23–25; Sharing through Story30–33; Atsugewi regional distinction34–38. Last update May7,2025.

Review recorded: October 30, 2026

Access note: Other peoples’ sections, recognition-status wording, precise territorial outlines, map and linked multimedia not adopted. Park interpretation is not a current membership roll, visitor permission or complete Atsugewi-authored history.

https://home.nps.gov/lavo/learn/tribes.htm
HomelandsSeasonal lifewaysMuseums
GovernmentNational Park ServiceSource 2

Selena LaMarr

Biographical account details LaMarr's 1952–1972 interpretive work and the participation of Dessie Snooks, Laverna Jenkins and Lillian Snooks. Offers named cultural teachers alongside generalized ethnographic descriptions.

Inspection: Content reviewed for the stated scope

Scope: Actual complete NPS main biography lines19–36, read normally in web reader. Its account dates demonstrations from1952 through1972 and names other cultural demonstrators; last updated March20,2019.

Review recorded: October 30, 2026

Access note: Historical park biography, not a present community census or evidence of disappearance. Period quotations and spelling variants remain attributed; no new photograph, original records or current teaching outcome inspected.

https://home.nps.gov/people/selena-lamarr.htm
BiographyBasketryCultural education
Academic / referenceThomas R. Garth / University of California Press, Anthropological Records 14(2),129–212Source 3

Atsugewi Ethnography — selected historical passages

Publication: 1953-02-27

Selected 1938–1939 fieldwork account names contributors and interpreters, distinguishes Hat Creek and Dixie Valley settings, and records Sarah Brown’s account of learning basket coiling from a Maidu friend. Its period judgments and disputed geography remain attributed to Garth, not present-day community definitions.

Inspection: Content reviewed for the stated scope

Scope: Actual 90-page primary PDF downloaded; title/imprint and contents checked; contributor list PDF 5; printed 129–131(PDF 8–10); printed 148–151(PDF 27–30), basketry subsection specifically. Printed 150 visually verified from a rendered page. Other chapters, plates and ceremonial/medical sections not closely reviewed or used.

Review recorded: October 30, 2026

Access note: Catalogue normal web request 403, stopped. The openly indexed primary PDF itself returned 200 and its offered redirect was followed normally, not by altered headers or a fabricated rendition. Fieldwork dates 1938(two months) and 1939(three weeks); publication issued February 27,1953. Salvage-era assumptions, subjective ratings of speakers, population estimates, ritual instructions, curing recipes and allegations about neighboring peoples are not adopted. No legal-boundary or modern-roll inference. A narrator’s account of introducing coiling is not a proven unique origin for every basket.

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84175/files/ucar014-003.pdf
Historical scholarshipNamed contributorsBasketryRegional relationships
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Suggested reading and supporting references

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Atsugewi History Culture and Living Communities · 29 links

Owner-supplied study of historical Atsuge and Apwaruge contexts, broader Atsugewi language and people, and living Pit River communities. Historical regional labels and modern band identities remain distinct. These 29 URLs are contributed reading leads, not 29 verified works. Profile source annotations separately record actual selected-content reviews. Mirrors, descriptions, abstracts, announcements and unread leads are not automatically counted studies. The private full attachment is not reproduced.

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Robey’s Atlas of Indigenous North America · Compiled October 19, 2026 · Atsuge