The Quartz Valley Indian Community is a federal reservation in Siskiyou County, California. It consists of Klamath, Karuk, and Shasta Indians.
The community area is about 174 acres (0.70 km2) and numbers around 264.
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“As I went forth early on a still and frosty morning, the trees looked like airy creatures of darkness caught napping; on this side huddled together, with their gray hairs streaming, in a secluded valley which the sun had not penetrated; on that, hurrying off in Indian file along some watercourse, while the shrubs and grasses, like elves and fairies of the night, sought to hide their diminished heads in the snow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Well, that’s a nice social problem—an Indian in the family.”
—Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
—Aldo Leopold (1886–1948)