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Indigenous sacred sites in California, United States
Explore 10 Indigenous sacred places in California, United States, with mapped locations and detailed site guides.
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Blythe Intaglios
Blythe, California, United States
In the Colorado Desert, fifteen miles north of Blythe, six colossal figures lie etched into the earth....
Joshua Tree National Park, California
Joshua Tree, California, United States
Rising from the meeting place of two deserts, Joshua Tree's otherworldly landscape of giant granite boulders and twisted trees has drawn seekers for millennia....
Lassen Peak, California
Mineral, California, United States
Lassen Peak stands as the southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Range and ancestral homeland of the Atsugewi, Yana, Yahi, and Mountain Maidu peoples....
Mount Diablo, California
Contra Costa County, California, United States
The Ohlone call it Tuyshtak—'at the dawn of time.' The Bay Miwok say the world began here, after a great flood....
Mount San Jacinto, California
Riverside County, California, United States
Mount San Jacinto rises nearly two vertical miles above the Sonoran desert floor outside Palm Springs, creating one of the most dramatic vertical landscapes in North...
Mount Shasta
Siskiyou County, California, United States
Mount Shasta rises 14,179 feet from northern California flatlands, a snow-capped volcano visible for a hundred miles....
Mount Tamalpais
Marin County, California, United States
Mount Tamalpais rises 2,571 feet above San Francisco Bay, a mountain sacred to the Coast Miwok for thousands of years and recognized by the Lakota as the 'Holy Right Eye...
Point Conception, California
Santa Barbara County, California, United States
Point Conception juts westward into the Pacific at the precise bend where the California coastline pivots from north-south to east-west....
Tecate Peak, California
Tecate, California, United States
Tecate Peak, known to the Kumeyaay as Kuuchamaa, 'The Exalted High Place,' stands among the most sacred sites of the Kumeyaay people....
Tolay Lake
Sonoma County, California, United States
For at least four thousand years, medicine people traveled from across what is now the western United States—and as far as Mexico—to gather at Tolay Lake....
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