Case file · Sacred site
Medicine Lake Highlands
A volcanic upland east of Mount Shasta, sacred to the Pit River, Modoc and other peoples as a place of healing and vision. In 2006 a federal appeals court sided with the Pit River Tribe against geothermal leases there.
2006 CE · 41.58, -121.59 · status: official
The account
Glass Mountain, a flow of black obsidian, erupted here about a thousand years ago.