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 ...

This is part 2 of the series on the Modoc War. If you havent already listened to part 1, link below: Captain Jack & the Modoc War | Part 1 - Weve already discussed the Modoc people, a bit of their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALTURAS, Calif. — On the outskirts of town, where tumbleweeds strain against barbed wire and sagebrush sprouts on the roadside, a sign reads, “Where the West still lives.” One member of the Modoc ...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — The Klamath County Museum has acquired three diaries with witness accounts of Modoc Indians executed at Fort Klamath in 1873 following one of the last battles between tribes ...