Modoki

Traditionally engaged in hunting, gathering (mainly fruits of water lilies) and weaving baskets . They lived in simple dugouts of the Indian type , in which only a wooden roof protruded above the ground, later they also began to use tipi . They hunted and fished on the Lost River and Lake Tula.

Before the California Gold Rush, modocs had virtually no contact with white people. Massive gold mining in California from 1848 to 1855 attracted tens of thousands of volunteers not only from the United States , but also from Latin America , Europe , and Australia . White people captured the traditional lands of the modocs near Lake Thule, on the border of California and Oregon. The Modocs attacked near Bloody Point and killed 65 white settlers. ^[1] In response, California police led by Ben Wright killed 41 modocs during peace talks. ^{[2] The} armed conflict escalated into the Modoc War , after which the modocs who participated in the war - 39 men, 64 women and 60 children, were sent to Oklahoma as prisoners of war.

In 1909, 51 people left from a once large tribe were relocated to a reservation in Oregon, where their descendants live to this day. ^[3]

• Modoc war
• Indians Plateau

1. ↑ Modoc. Military museum
2. ↑ Riddle, Jeff C., The Indian History of the Modoc War , pages 28-30, 1914, reprinted Orion Press, 1991.
3. ↑ Carl Waldman: Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Checkmark, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-8160-3964-X

• Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma