On Oct. 3, 1873, the Modoc chief Captain Jack (Kintpuash) and three of his warriors were hanged after a military commission found them guilty of war crimes. The four Modocs had murdered Brigadier Gen.

It was the only major Native American war fought in California and it gripped the nation’s attention almost 150 years ago as a band of warriors held off a much larger force of the U.S. Army in a harsh ...

In this empathetic narrative history, poet and writer McNally (A Wild Idea: The Hunting Trip That Changed John Muir and Created the American Wilderness) tells the story of the decadeslong conflict ...

Donald Dexter grew up under the watchful gaze of Kaitchkona Winema, his seventh generation ancestor. Her portrait hung in Dexter’s grandparents’ home on the Klamath Indian Reservation, where he was ...

The Modoc War was a “David and Goliath war,” in the words of writer and historian Doug Foster. The six-month standoff that ended in 1873 was then the costliest American-Indian conflict in lives lost ...

It was a conflict that made headlines from Oregon to London, inflamed stereotypes and heightened a national discussion about how the United States treated Native Americans. But now, most Oregonians ...

KLAMATH FALLS -- The Klamath County Museum has acquired three diaries with witness accounts of Modoc Indians being executed at Fort Klamath in 1873 following one of the last battles between tribes and ...

California’s Modoc War of 130 years ago doesn’t rank among such watershed Native American battles as Wounded Knee, Little Bighorn or the Sand Creek massacre. But it was the only major Indian war ever ...

Join California Historical Society in an engaging exploration of the history of the Modoc War with a conversation inspired by images and collections seen in CHS' exhibition, Sensationalist Portayls of ...

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When Joseph Dupris was contacted in 2021 by Taylor Tupper, Modoc descendant and citizen of the Klamath Tribes, to work on a short film set in their shared ancestral homelands, he was intrigued. Two ...