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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.
Kintpuash was born around 1837 in Modoc territory near Tule Lake, in present-day California.The Modocs considered Tule Lake sacred, marking it as the location where the deity Kumookumts began creating the world.
The Modoc War, or the Modoc Campaign (also known as the Lava Beds War), was an armed conflict between the Native American Modoc people and the United States Army in northeastern California and southeastern Oregon from 1872 to 1873. [3]
The Modoc Nation is headquartered in Miami, Oklahoma, and based largely in Ottawa County.Of the 250 enrolled tribal members, 120 live within the state of Oklahoma. The Tribe's chief is Bill Follis, who was instrumental in securing renewed federal recognition in 1978.
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
Modoc National Forest was established as the Modoc Forest Reserve on November 29, 1904, by the United States General Land Office.It was named for the Modoc people who traditionally had their territory in this area.
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.
Alfred Benjamin Meacham (1826–1882) was an American Methodist minister, reformer, author and historian, who served as the U.S. Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon (1869–1872).