Peak Eight

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Peak Eight
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Peak Eight
Location in California
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Peak Eight
Location in the United States
Highest point
Elevation 5,188 ft (1,581 m)  NGVD 29 [1]
Coordinates 41°33′01″N123°46′34″W / 41.5503981°N 123.7761792°W / 41.5503981; -123.7761792 [2]
Geography
Location Del Norte County, California, U.S.
Parent range Siskiyou Mountains

Peak Eight is a summit in Del Norte County, California, [2] sacred to the Yurok, Karok and Tolowa tribes. [3] [4] [5] [6]

References

  1. "Peak Eight". ListsOfJohn.com. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Peak Eight". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  3. Wunder, John R. (1996). Native American cultural and religious freedoms. Taylor & Francis. p. 59. ISBN   978-0-8153-2489-8 . Retrieved 19 April 2011.
  4. Norton, Jack (1979). Genocide in northwestern California: when our worlds cried . Indian Historian Press. p.  115 . Retrieved 19 April 2011.
  5. Ervin, Keith (November 1989). Fragile majesty: the battle for North America's last great forest . The Mountaineers. p.  39. ISBN   978-0-89886-230-0 . Retrieved 19 April 2011.
  6. Falk, David (1989). "Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association: Bulldozing First Amendment Protection of Indian Sacred Lands". Ecology L.Q. 16: 515ff.