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.

California’s Modoc War of 130 years ago doesn’t rank among such watershed Native American battles as Wounded Knee, Little Bighorn or the Sand Creek massacre. But it was the only major Indian war ever ...

His name was Keint-poos, but he was better known as Captain Jack, the name bestowed by white men. And his fate might be likened to what George Washington would have faced at the hands of the British.

There is far more to Northern California’s Lava Beds National Monument than its remarkable geological formations and lava tubes. For example, it is the site of the Modoc War, the only Indian war in ...

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 ...

REPRESENTATIVES for the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma have unveiled conceptual plans for the Catskills Casino Resort, a 950,000-square foot gaming hall and hotel the tribe hopes to build in the town of ...

“THE value of Indian myths lies in the fact that they represent the mental labour of men who lived ages before those who recorded their thoughts on papyrus, baked brick, or burnt cylinder” (p. 383).

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