read once that the government tried to force a Northern California Indian tribe, perhaps part of the Maidu or the Yana, to move onto a reservation, but a tribesman only needed to climb the nearest hill and Mt. Shasta would be visible in the distance, allowing the people to find their way back home to the sacred mountain. once, the government even tried to fool the tribe by force-marching them down to San Francisco, putting them on a ship and sailing to a new place for the reservation, but the ship had only sailed up the coast, and once again a member of the tribe climbed the nearest hill and saw the snow-covered top of Mt. Shasta, 14,162 feet above sea level, and the tribe left the reservation to walk home.