This is a complicated tale., just like the geological history of Eagle Lake. Noted anthropologist Dr. Alfred Kroeber assigned Eagle Lake to the Atsugewi tribe. While Maidu elders such Roxie Peconum (1851-1958) indicated that Eagle Lake was part of its summer territory. On other hand, William Evans in his extensive research of the Honey Lake Maidu noted that there was a lack specific references to the lake. To complicate things, the Paiutes were the victims of the Papoose Meadows Massacre of 1866.
Of course, there are the rock circles can be found near Pine Creek, and those near the original Eagle Lake tunnel. However, of the three tribes mentioned,, none has claimed them. Can these ruins be associated with lake’s petroglyphs?
Tim
I think that those rock circles CAN be attributed to those that made the petroglyphs because of the fact that at the Belfast petroglyphs, which in ancient times was where Eagle Lake flowed into Lake Lahontan through Willow Creek, there’s also a giant stone circle