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Chief Yellow Hammer painted in traditional clothing by E.A Burbank, 1901.. About 600 Modoc live in Klamath County, Oregon, in and around their ancestral homelands.This group includes those who stayed on the reservation during the Modoc War, as well as the descendants of those who chose to return in 1909 to Oregon from Indian Territory in Oklahoma or Kansas.
The Klamaths were culturally related to the Modocs, but the two tribes were bitter enemies. [8] Although most of the "49ers" missed the Modoc country, in March 1851 Abraham Thompson, a mule train packer, discovered gold near Yreka while traveling along the Siskiyou Trail from southern Oregon.
The prisoners were placed temporarily on an island in the Platte River, a few miles from the fort, where they hunted and fished for food. Given the detour to Nebraska, the Modoc were forced to travel 2,000 miles during the cold of late fall, not reaching Baxter Springs, Kansas, until November 16, 1873. The 153 Modoc men, women, and children ...
The incident deepened mistrust between the Modocs and U.S. authorities, complicating the peace process and intensifying the conflict. On March 6, 1873, with the help of his sister Mary, Kintpuash wrote to the peace commissioners, explaining his refusal to surrender his men and questioning why settlers who had killed Modocs were not held ...
MODOC, the original alias of MODOK in the works of Marvel Comics; Modoc cypress (Cupressus bakeri), a tree species native to the homeland of the Modoc peopleModoc sucker, an endangered California fish
The Battle of Sand Butte between the Modoc Indians and the United States Army was a part of the Modoc War in California. On April 26, 1873, a force of ~70 Army soldiers and ~12 Warm Springs Indians scouts went looking for a group of Modoc who had escaped a previous assault attempt by the Army.
The Battle of Lost River in November 1872 was the first battle in the Modoc War in the northwestern United States.The skirmish, which was fought near the Lost River along the California–Oregon border, was the result of an attempt by the U.S. 1st Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army to force a band of the Modoc tribe to relocate back to the Klamath Reservation, which they had left in ...
Modocs Scalping and Torturing Prisoners, an 1873 wood engraving. At this point, Colonel Wheaton abandoned the plan to join the two forces south of the Stronghold. Major Green suggested that they instead attempt to join the units along the lake shore, north of the Stronghold. Orders were shouted to Bernard, who accepted the change in plans.