Peak Eight

{{Short description|Mountain in United States of America}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Peak Eight

| elevation_ft = 5,188

| elevation_ref = {{NGVD29}}{{cite loj |id=60756 |name=Peak Eight |accessdate=10 March 2014}}

| location = Del Norte County, California, U.S.

| range = Siskiyou Mountains

| map = USA California#USA

| map_caption = Location in California##Location in the United States

| map_size = 200

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| label_position =

| coordinates = {{coord|41.5503981|N|123.7761792|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000_source:GNIS|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| range_coordinates =

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis |id=253745 |name=Peak Eight |accessdate=22 June 2011}}

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Peak Eight is a summit in Del Norte County, California, sacred to the Yurok, Karok and Tolowa tribes.{{cite book |last=Wunder |first=John R. |title=Native American cultural and religious freedoms |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UHuCGWZUrM4C&pg=PA59 |accessdate=19 April 2011 |year=1996 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-8153-2489-8 |page=59}}{{cite book |last=Norton |first=Jack |title=Genocide in northwestern California: when our worlds cried |url=https://archive.org/details/genocideinnorthw00nort |url-access=registration |accessdate=19 April 2011 |year=1979 |publisher=Indian Historian Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/genocideinnorthw00nort/page/115 115]}}{{cite book |last=Ervin |first=Keith |title=Fragile majesty: the battle for North America's last great forest |url=https://archive.org/details/fragilemajestyba0000ervi |url-access=registration |accessdate=19 April 2011 |date=November 1989 |publisher=The Mountaineers |isbn=978-0-89886-230-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/fragilemajestyba0000ervi/page/39 39]}}{{cite journal |last=Falk |first=David |year=1989 |title=Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association: Bulldozing First Amendment Protection of Indian Sacred Lands |journal=Ecology L.Q. |volume=16 |pages=515ff |url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/eclawq16&div=30&id=&page=}}