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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“I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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—Marian Wright Edelman (20th century)