On May 28, 1875, a Modoc man from Southern Oregon died at Alcatraz. He was one of the first Native Americans sentenced to the island prison. Long before visitors toured Alcatraz or famous inmates like ...
Beginning in the fall of 1872, a small band of Modoc warriors and their families held off hundreds of U.S. soldiers in the lava fields of Northern California. Ultimately, the conflict left the Modoc ...