Captain Jack,
Modoc
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- KLAMATH
- The Klamath's ancestral territory
spanned from present-day south central Oregon down into
northern California. Because of their interior location
they were able to avoid the region's white settlers until
relatively late in the contact period. Hence, the
Klamaths escaped the great epidemics that victimized most
tribes in the wake of European contact. Moreover, their
history is not marred by a pattern of violent
confrontations with white settlers. Their first
Euro-American contact came with Hudson Bay Company
traders in 1826, who pronounced them "a happy
people.
Eventually they obtained guns and
horses from the traders, but for the most part the tribe
remained reliant on hunting, fishing, and gathering.
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Source
- Klamath
- Modoc
- The descendants of the survivors
of the Modoc War which devastated the tribe for which
it is named in 1872-1873 are the only tribe in
Oklahoma that can trace its history back to California
and Oregon. As was common, the cause of the Modoc War
was the United States government forcing the Modoc
from their homes in northern California onto a
reservation in Oregon with their neighbors, the
Klammath. As a result of their eventual defeat, the
Modoc were sent into exile on the Quapaw Reservation
in what was then the "Indian Territory". In 1909 the
government permitted 51 Modoc to return to the
Klammath reservation back in Southern Oregon (ENAT,
137-139). The rest stayed in Oklahoma.
Source
- The seal of the Modoc Nation is
circular, edged in white recalling the "Circle of
Life", a common element in many tribal flags. From the
seal hang ten feathers (black and white, with tufts of
yellow and red - the four primary colors in Native
art) which symbolize the ten clans of the Modoc
people. The central device of the seal is an eagle
flying over the ocean with a coastline appearing in
the lower hoist side of the seal. This reflects the
historic homeland of the Modoc in northern California
and southern Oregon. The eagle appears in natural
colors against a light blue sky. The ocean is depicted
in dark blue while the coast is shown in shades of
golden brown. Source
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