The Modoc War of 1872 to 1873 was one of the costliest American Indian wars in U.S. history, considering the number of people involved. For nearly seven months, a handful of Modoc Indian warriors and ...

Oct. 18—MIAMI, Okla. — Bill G. Follis, the longest-serving chief of the Modoc Nation, died Friday at Mercy Hospital in Joplin at age 89, his family said. Follis, a lifelong Miami resident, began his ...

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 ...

NMAI copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. Contents Prologue: Duel at Lost River -- Holy lands here ...

This collection includes six albumen prints made by Edweard Muybridge in 1873 among the Modoc and Warm Springs communities in California and Oregon. This collection contains six 3x3 inch albumen ...

The short film This is Their Land was selected for the 10th Annual Klamath Independent Film Festival 2022 and premiered Saturday (9/17) at the Ross Ragland Theater in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The film ...

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 ...

Outnumbered ten to one, Kintpuash led his people to take a stand against U.S. Army soldiers in 1872 to protect their land. For over a year, the Modocs tenaciously stood their ground in the California ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cheewa James’ grandfather, Shacknasty Jim, far left, with Hooker Jim, Steamboat Frank and rancher John Fairchild, who rented land from the Modocs. Near left: Modocs Artena Chocus, Princess Mary and ...