Shasta or Shastan may refer to:

Native American

Shasta Costa The Shasta Costa (also known as the Chasta Costa, Shastacosta, Chastacosta, Shastao-Skoton, Shista-Kkhwusta or Shistakwasta ), are a Native American tribe, one of Lower Rogue River Athabascan tribes from southwestern Oregon, who originally live ...

, a people group native to southwestern Oregon * Shasta language, extinct language of the Shasta people * Shasta people, a people group native to northern California and southern Oregon *

Shastan languages The Shastan (or Sastean) family consisted of four languages, spoken in present-day northern California and southern Oregon: # Konomihu ''(†)'' # New River Shasta ''(†)'' # Okwanuchu ''(†)'' # Shasta (also known as Shastika) ''(†)'' K ...

, extinct family of languages

Geography and locations

California, United States

* Shasta, California, a former mining town (west of present-day Redding, California), now abandoned * Mount Shasta, California, a city located southwest of Mount Shasta * Mount Shasta, part of the Cascade Range in California * Shasta County, California, named for the mountain * Shasta Lake, California, a city near Shasta Lake * Shasta Lake, the reservoir behind Shasta Dam * Shasta Dam, on the Sacramento River in California *

Shasta River The Shasta River is a tributary of the Klamath River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed 9 March 2011 in northern California in the United States. It dr ...

, a river near Mount Shasta *

Shasta Springs Shasta Springs was a popular summer resort during the late 19th and early 20th centuries on the Upper Sacramento River in northern California. It was located just north of the town of Dunsmuir, and just north of Upper Soda Springs along the Siski ...

, a former resort on the Sacramento River *

Shasta State Historic Park Shasta or Shastan may refer to: Native American * Shasta Costa, a people group native to southwestern Oregon * Shasta language, extinct language of the Shasta people * Shasta people, a people group native to northern California and southern Ore ...

, the current state park at the site of Shasta * State of Shasta, part of an 1854 proposal to partition California into three states

Iran

Shasta, Iran Shasta ( fa, شستا, also Romanized as Shastā) is a village in Chehel Shahid Rural District, in the Central District of Ramsar County, Mazandaran Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called ...

, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran *

Shastan, Iran Shestan Olya ( fa, شستان عليا, also Romanized as Shestān ‘Olyā; also known as Shastān-e Bālā, Shāshtū, Shastān, and Shishtu) is a village in Safaiyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Zaveh County, Razavi Khorasan Pr ...

, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

People

Shasta Averyhardt Shasta Averyhardt is an American golfer. A professional since 2009, she is the first African-American golfer on the LPGA Tour since 2001 when she qualified in 2010 for the 2011 tour. She went to Jackson State University, a historically black univer ...

, an American golfer on the LPGA *

Shasta Groene Joseph Edward Duncan III (February 25, 1963 – March 28, 2021) was an American convicted serial killer and child molester who was on death row in federal prison in conjunction with the 2005 kidnappings and murders of members of the Groene fam ...

, a young girl from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho abducted by Joseph E. Duncan III

Products

Shasta (soft drink) Shasta Beverages is an American soft drink manufacturer that markets a value-priced soft drink line with a wide variety of soda flavors, as well as a few drink mixers, under the brand name Shasta. The company name is derived from Mount Shasta ...

, a soft drink brand * Shasta, a former Procter & Gamble shampoo brand *

Shasta travel trailers Shasta travel trailers were recreational vehicles originally built between 1941 and 2004. Founded by industry pioneer Robert Gray, the firm was originally situated in a small factory in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Áng ...

, an American brand built between 1941–2004

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Shasta (Narnia), the main character in C. S. Lewis' novel ''The Horse and His Boy'' (1954) * "Shasta", the seventh track on singer-songwriter Vienna Teng's album '' Warm Strangers'' (2004) * "Shasta Beast", the twelfth track on the Eagles of Death Metal release '' Death by Sexy'' (2006) * Shasta Fay Hepworth, major character in the Paul Thomas Anderson film '' Inherent Vice'' (2014), based on Thomas Pynchon's eponymous novel * ''

Shasta McNasty ''Shasta McNasty'' (later retitled ''Shasta'') is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from October 5, 1999, to August 1, 2000. The show was created by Jeff Eastin and produced by Eastin and Neal H. Moritz. The show starred Carmine Giovinazzo, ...

'', a television sitcom on UPN. The name was shortened to ''Shasta'' before season one ended. * ''

Shasta of the Wolves ''Shasta of the Wolves'' is a feral child novel by British-born American children's author Olaf Baker. The novel was originally published in 1919 by Dodd, Mead and Company with illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull, and was reprinted a number ...

'', a 1919 feral child novel and its title character by Olaf Baker * Shasta, a Siberian Husky in '' Snow Buddies''

Other uses

* Shasta (deity), a Hindu deity *

Shasta (mascot) Shasta is the mascot of the University of Houston athletics teams, the Houston Cougars. The name "Shasta" refers to both a live and an anthropomorphic costumed cougar mascot. History The origin of Shasta dates back to 1927 when John R. Bender ...

, the name of the University of Houston's mascot * SHASTA, the callsign for Lynx Aviation, based in Denver, Colorado * '' Leucanthemum × superbum'' or Shasta daisy, a flower *

Shasta Publishers Shasta Publishers was a science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing house founded in 1947 by Erle Melvin Korshak, T. E. Dikty, and Mark Reinsberg, who were all science fiction fans from the Chicago area. The name of the press was ...

, a 1950s US science fiction publishing imprint * USS ''Shasta'', either of two ammunition replenishment ships of the United States Navy {{disambiguation, geo, given name