MODOC

mōˈdŏk, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Sahaptin-Chinook branch of the Penutian linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They formerly lived in SW Oregon and N California, particularly around Modoc Lake (also known as Lower Klamath Lake) and Tule Lake. Modoc culture was similar to the culture of the Klamath, but the Modoc did not rely as heavily on the wokas, or water-lily seeds, for food. There was considerable trouble between the Modoc and the early white settlers, with atrocities being committed on both sides. The Modoc were finally constrained to live (1864) on the Klamath Reservation in Oregon, but most of the tribe was dissatisfied. In 1870, Chief Kintpuash, or Captain Jack, led a group back to California and refused to return to the reservation. The attempt to bring them back brought on the Modoc War (1872–73). After the Modoc War, the Modoc people were divided; some were sent to Oklahoma (where a few remain) and some to the Klamath Reservation in Oregon. The Modoc in Oregon share lands with the Klamath and Snake. In 1990 there were some 500 Modoc in the United States.

See V. F. Ray, Primitive Pragmatists: The Modoc Indians of Northern California (1963), R. H. Dillea, Burnt-Out-Fires (1973).

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books on: Modoc  - 376 results

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The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: Shaping Your Landscape
Book by Peter J. Ucko, Robert Layton; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Landscape Archaeology--Congresses, Landscape Assessment--Cross-Cultural Studies--Congresses
...of a gun while they provided the pass. Modoc Point, a peninsula into Klamath Lake...homeland. Why, indeed, were they there when Modoc community representatives had already signed...Steele, for a reservation within their own Modoc landscape, to the south, where they were...
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North American Indian Musical Styles
Book by Bruno Nettl; American Folklore Society, 1954
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Music
...from a number of tribes. The style of the Modoc and Klamath is among the simplest in North...primitive music in general. Among the Modoc there is a large proportion of two-tone...exceedingly rare. The melodic movement of Modoc and Klamath music is relatively undulating...
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The 1870 Ghost Dance
Book by Cora Du Bois; University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Subjects: California--Social Life And Customs, Indian Dance--North America, Indians Of North America--California--Rites And Ceremonies, Nativistic Movements--California
...first heard of the new prophecy from the Modoc who lived in the vicinity of Tule Lake...Jake Smith, said he learned that the Modoc were expecting the return of the dead and...the living. He and a friend went to the Modoc dance, where they stayed four or five...
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America's Wars
Book by Alan Axelrod; Wiley, 2002
Subjects: United States--History, Military
...search of the Modocs. He began by pounding Modoc positions with howitzers and mortars during...barrage had little effect, and on April 26, Modoc warriors sighted a reconnoitering party...Captain Evan Thomas. With 22 braves, a Modoc named Scarfaced Charley attacked, killing...
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The Indian Tribes of North America
Book by John R. Swanton; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952
Subjects: Indians Of North America
...the present Linkville. History. --The Modoc came into contact with the Whites in comparatively...were committed on both sides. In 1864 the Modoc and the Klamath together ceded their territory...bring the runaways back precipitated the Modoc War of 1872-73. The Modoc retreated...
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Interning America's Colonial History: The Anthologies and Poetry of Lawson Fusao Inada
Journal article by Ryan Burt; MELUS, Vol. 35, 2010
Subjects: Asian American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Inada, Lawson Fusao--Criticism and interpretation, Inada, Lawson Fusao--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, United States history--Portrayals
...Inadas work. Traditional home of the Modoc tribe, the land first captured the...setting, a small contingent of the Modoc under the leadership of Kintpuash, or Captain Jack, broke from the larger Modoc Band and returned to Tule Lake. The...
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Calibrating and Reassessing American Bottom Culture History
Journal article by Andrew C. Fortier, Thomas E. Emerson, Dale L. McElrath; Southeastern Archaeology, Vol. 25, 2006
Subjects: Cultural change, Data bases, Field study, History, Research & development--R&D
...early "paleo-Indian" date from the Modoc rock shelter has also been dismissed based...in Missouri (Ray et al. 2007) and at Modoc rock shelter (Ahler and Koldehoff 2007...again in the Late Archaic. Revisits to the Modoc rock shelter have resulted in a comprehensive...
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Of Beads and a Crystal Vase: An Exploration of Language into Darkness, of Michael Dorris's the Broken Cord and Cloud Chamber
Journal article by David T. Mcnab; West Virginia University Philological Papers, 2000
Subjects: Dorris, Michael--Criticism and interpretation, Fetal alcohol syndrome--Portrayals, Film adaptations--Criticism and interpretation, Movie adaptations--Criticism and interpretation
...him. He only found out that he was not a Modoc at some time in the late 1980s or early...person--reputedly a descendant of the Modoc Captain Jack, apparently on his fathers...in the early 1990s, descendant of the Modoc Chief and warrior Captain Jack. In the...
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Temporal Variation in Late Middle Archaic Bone Pins
Journal article by Andrew A. White; Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA, Vol. 28, 2003
...1976), Black Earth (Breitburg 1982), Modoc (Ahler 1993; Jefferies 1997), and Cave...Creek Rockshelter, Koster, KYANG, and Modoc). These radiocarbon dates can be used...6 date and two of the three dates from Modoc predate 5500 B.P. The third date from...
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Imagination, Conversation, and Trickster Discourse: Negotiating an Approach to Native American Literary Culture
Journal article by Paul L. Tidwell; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 21, 1997
Subjects: Indians Of Central America--Periodicals
...Ray wrote a detailed ethnography of the Modoc Indians of Northern California and Southern...seeks to ground his description of the Modoc world structurally or scientifically...century or further, one would assume that Modoc culture developed these traits without...
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Modoc Indian War, 1873: a Battle Staff Ride for Company Leaders
Magazine article by James R. Brann, Gregory T. Day; Infantry, Vol. 86, September 1996
Subjects: Military engagements, Military history, Military training, Native Americans, War
Modoc Indian War, 1873: a Battle Staff Ride for...company size or, at most, battalion. The Modoc Indian War of 1873 is an excellent example...the region surrounding Tule Lake and the Modoc Indians ancestral homeland, which sits just...
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An Uncertain Influence: The Role of the Federal Government in California, 1846-1880
Magazine article by Robert J. Chandler; California History, Winter 2003
Subjects: California--History, Federalism--History
...remain open past mid-1865. The 1873 Modoc War is surely misnamed as a "war." Kientipoos...whites called him, led a mere two hundred Modoc men, women, and children from a reservation...federal government: rather than hang the Modoc captives, Norton I suggested that they...
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Save the Mohawk!
Magazine article by J. C. Carney; Sea Classics, Vol. 35, November 2002
...along with cutters: Tampa, Mojave, Modoc, Algonquin, Tahoma, and Faunce, escorted...acknowledgment. Twelve hours later, USS/USCGC Modoc found Strathella, and took her in tow...the 13th out of Skou.ord. As soon as Modoc alerted her to the "find," Mohawk sailed...
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Lava Beds: a Rocky Past
Magazine article by Lisa Taggart; Sunset, Vol. 204, May 2000
Subjects: Lava Beds National Monument, National parks, Tourism, Travel, Volcanoes
...views are long across the high-desert Modoc Plateau at Lava Beds National Monument...earth had cooled, ancestors of todays Modoc Indians carved images into various volcanic...weekends of June, July, and August; a Modoc reunion gathering in July (open to the...
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Eadweard Muybridge
Magazine article by Cheryl Maslin; California History, Vol. 88, Winter 2010
Subjects: California--History, Muybridge, Eadweard James--Biography, Photographers--Biography
...California photographing Tule Lake for the US Army when the Modoc Wars erupted in 1873. After meeting Governor Leland Stanford...High Sierra; War, Murder, and the Production of Coffee: the Modoc Wars and the Development of Central America; Motion Pictures...
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The Execution of Captain Jack
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 8, 2010
Subjects: Execution (Punishment), Executions and executioners, Modoc War, 1872-1873
...detail the interrogation and hanging of Modoc leader Captain Jack and three of his associates near Klamath Falls at the end of the Modoc War in 1873 - has been acquired by the...reporters who covered the story." The Modoc War - which ended three years before the...
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Indiana Town's Claims to Fame: Elephants and Electricity
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 19, 2006
Subjects: Elephants, High school students, Proboscidea
...in 1942. The gray Indian elephant named Modoc was to appear in a benefit performance...enticed by the aroma of roasting peanuts. As Modoc lumbered around town, locals mistook her...effect, such as the inebriated man who saw Modoc pass by the Union Cigar Store. "Thats...
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Preps
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 23, 2006
...Jefferson 17 Ashland 35, Roosevelt 26 Astoria 28, Philomath 0 Barlow 27, Sandy 20 Beaverton 21, Canby 14 Bonanza 19, Modoc, Calif., Calif. 7 Cascade Christian 54, Bandon 0 Clatskanie 42, Knappa 8 Crater 62, Marshall 0 Culver 27, Lakeview 6...
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Tribal Teachers
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 15, 2010
Subjects: Native Americans, Teachers, Universities and colleges
...Longhouse. "Youll be that teacher that crosses that reservation line and knows those families," said Ball, a member of the Modoc and Klamath tribes. "Youll never be just a teacher. Youll be an Indian teacher. An aunt. An uncle. A grandfather. A mother...
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Springfield Police Log
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 25, 2010
...Police contacted the man and determined it was an air-soft gun. Warrant service: 4:15 p.m., Mohawk Boulevard and Modoc Street. A man was seen hiding behind an apartment complex. Police found a man in a paper box behind a tire store and arrested...
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Modoc
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MODOC mo dok, Native North Americans whose language belongs...lived in SW Oregon and N California, particularly around Modoc Lake (also known as Lower Klamath Lake) and Tule Lake. Modoc culture was similar to the culture of the Klamath , but...
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Modoc War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MODOC WAR 1872 73, series of battles between the Modoc and the U.S. army fought as a result of the attempt to force a group of the Modoc to return to the Klamath Reservation in S Oregon. Beginning in Nov., 1872, U.S. soldiers were engaged...
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Captain Jack
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAPTAIN JACK (d. 1873), subchief of the Modoc and leader of the hostile group in the Modoc War (1872 73). Jack, whose Modoc name was Kintpuashkint pooash, had agreed (1864) to leave his ancestral home...
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Shasta, Mount
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...resort town of Mt. Shasta is at the southwest foot of the mountain. The peak has had spiritual significance for the Klamath and Modoc tribes, and in 1987 an assemblage of New Age enthusiasts gathered there to honor a planetary alignment, with many choosing...
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Klamath , Indigenous People of North America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...language of the Sahaptin-Chinook branch of the Penutian linguistic stock (see Native American languages ) and are related to the Modoc people. The material for the first description of the Klamath was collected by Peter Skene Ogden, who visited them in 1829...
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