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Modoc

Captain Jack's people of the Lost River — fifty-five fighters who held the Lava Beds against an army.

Exiled after the 1872-73 war; today the Modoc Nation of Oklahoma and Modoc descendants within Oregon's Klamath Tribes.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 4 border frames for Modoc — the shape you scrub through changes in 1600 · 1826 · 1864 · 1874.

Moments from the Chronicle

• 1872 Modoc War Captain Jack's 55 fighters hold the Lava Beds for months; he is hanged and the band exiled (1873).

Further reading

• The Modocs and Their War Keith A. Murray · 1959

  The standard history of Captain Jack's people and the 1872-73 Modoc War in the Lava Beds.

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown · 1970

  Era-sweeping history of the post-Civil War Plains wars, covering Sand Creek (1864) and the destruction of Cheyenne communities in detail. Essential companion to the nation-specific Moore volume.

• An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 Benjamin Madley · 2016

  Detailed account of California's state-sanctioned extermination campaigns; the Modoc War and the Lava Beds resistance are part of this broader catastrophe.

Sources

• Modoc people — Wikipedia