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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.
Life on the reservation was difficult. The more numerous Klamath harassed the Modoc, and the Indian agent neglected them. The Modoc became increasingly frustrated. By 1865, Captain Jack led his band of Modoc off the reservation and returned to their territory of the Lost River (California) area of Northern California.
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]
Donald McKay was born in about 1836 in Oregon Territory to fur trader Thomas McKay and She-Who-Rides-Like-The-Wind Umatilla, a Cayuse woman from the Umatilla tribe. [1]In 1852, McKay worked as a translator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Army.
Meacham published Wi-ne-ma (The Woman-Chief) and Her People in 1876 and dedicated it to Toby Riddle, [11] who had saved his life. This book is written with the avowed purpose of doing honor to the heroic Wi-ne-ma who at the peril of her life sought to save the ill fated peace commission to the Modoc Indians in 1873.
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The Battle of Dry Lake, also known as Sorass Lake, [1] was the first decisive victory of the United States over the Modoc Indians in northern California in 1873. The battle led to the splintering of the Modoc bands, and was the last major battle of the Modoc War.