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Mount Shasta is a prominent landmark among the Siskiyou Mountains and has cultural significance for the Shasta. The Shasta were the numerically largest of the Shastan speakers. Their territories spread from around modern Ashland in the north, Jenny Creek and Mount Shasta to the east, southward to the Scott Mountains , and westward to modern ...
At the time of Euro-American contact in the 1810s, the Native American tribes who lived within view of Mount Shasta included the Shasta, Okwanuchu, Modoc, Achomawi, Atsugewi, Karuk, Klamath, Wintu, and Yana tribes. A historic eruption of Mount Shasta in 1786 may have been observed by Lapérouse, but this is disputed.
According to local indigenous tribes, namely the Klamath people, Mount Shasta is inhabited by the spirit chief Skell, who descended from heaven to the mountain's summit.. Skell fought with the Spirit of the Below-World, Llao, who resided at Mount Mazama, by throwing hot rocks and lava, probably representing the volcanic eruptions at both mountains.
Shasta's ancestors inhabited the lands around Copco Lake near Bogus Mountain before there were formal records of the area, according to Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors meeting documents ...
Ancestral lands will be returned to the Shasta Indian Nation as part of a massive Klamath River dam removal project. California will help return tribal lands as part of the historic Klamath River ...
other Klamath, Karuk, and Shasta peoples The Quartz Valley Indian Community of the Quartz Valley Reservation of California is a federally recognized tribe of Klamath , Karuk , and Shasta Indians in Siskiyou County, California .
The Shasta Cascade region of California is located in the northeastern and north-central sections of the state bordering Oregon and Nevada, [1] including far northern parts of the Central Valley [citation needed] and the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
The three sacred sites, Devils Tower, situated in the Lakota Black Hills; the Four Corners of the Hopi in Arizona; and the Winnemem Wintu's Mount Shasta, are places of extraordinary beauty. They have been sites of controversy over differing ideas of how to use the land among American Indians and non-Indians.