• Thumbnail for Modoc War
    The Modoc War, or the Modoc Campaign (also known as the Lava Beds War), was an armed conflict between the Native American Modoc people and the United...
    45 KB (5,719 words) - 20:23, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Modoc people
    tribes, the Klamath Tribes in Oregon and the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma, now known as the Modoc Nation. The Modoc, like the neighboring Klamath, spoke dialectic...
    22 KB (2,494 words) - 04:18, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Modoc County, California
    Modoc County (/ˈmoʊdɒk/ ) is a county in the far northeast corner of the U.S. state of California. Its population is 8,700 as of the 2020 census, down...
    55 KB (3,515 words) - 17:13, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Native American policy of the Ulysses S. Grant administration
    demanded to invade Native land to get access to gold in the Black Hills. The Modoc War (1872–1873) and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), were detrimental...
    37 KB (5,252 words) - 01:36, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kintpuash
    Kintpuash (category People of the Modoc War)
    meeting. The Modoc leaders were hanged for "murder in violation of the laws of war" by the Army. Kintpuash was born about 1837 into a Modoc family in their...
    11 KB (1,205 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Modoc Nation
    The Modoc Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Modoc people, located in Ottawa County in the northeast corner of Oklahoma and Modoc and Siskiyou counties...
    28 KB (4,288 words) - 07:52, 28 November 2023
  • tribe of Modoc Modoc War, the last armed resistance of the Modoc people in 1873 The "Modocs", rival gang to the Molly Maguires Modoc, Arkansas Modoc, Georgia...
    2 KB (230 words) - 20:17, 28 January 2020
  • Thumbnail for Eadweard Muybridge
    Francisco, the newly acquired Alaskan Territory, subjects involved in the Modoc War, and lighthouses on the West Coast. He also made his early "moving" picture...
    97 KB (10,610 words) - 23:49, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Indian Wars
    of the Mojave Desert, and in the northeast during the Snake War (1864–1868) and Modoc War (1872–1873). The tribes of the Great Basin were mostly Shoshone...
    100 KB (12,152 words) - 19:12, 3 May 2024
  • The following is a tabulation of United States military casualties of war. Note: "Total casualties" includes wounded, combat and non-combat deaths but...
    42 KB (2,880 words) - 18:41, 16 April 2024
  • Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the War on Terror (which encompasses the War in Afghanistan...
    165 KB (2,431 words) - 11:09, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Curley Headed Doctor
    Curley Headed Doctor (category People of the Modoc War)
    Headed Doctor (Modoc: Cho-ocks, 1828 — 1890; also Curly-Headed Doctor) was the spiritual leader for the Modoc tribe, notably during the Modoc War. Curley Headed...
    4 KB (425 words) - 19:07, 31 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Modoc Point
    Route 97. It is part of the larger cliff known as Modoc Rim or Modoc Ridge. The point is named for the Modoc tribe of Native Americans because it was assigned...
    2 KB (307 words) - 17:33, 21 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for King Philip's War
    King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) was an armed...
    62 KB (6,934 words) - 22:08, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Canby
    Edward Canby (category People of the Modoc War)
    and Modoc warriors were also armed. According to Jeff C. Riddle, the Modoc son of the US interpreter and the author of Indian History of the Modoc War (1914)...
    28 KB (3,472 words) - 02:42, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for First Battle of the Stronghold
    First Battle of the Stronghold (category Battles of the Modoc War)
    Battle of the Stronghold (January 17, 1873) was the second battle in the Modoc War of 1872–1873. The battle was fought between the United States Army under...
    12 KB (1,720 words) - 15:43, 17 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jefferson C. Davis
    Jefferson C. Davis (category People of the Modoc War)
    After the war, Davis was the first commander of the Department of Alaska from 1867 to 1870, and assumed field command during the Modoc War of 1872–1873...
    34 KB (4,283 words) - 21:08, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Second Battle of the Stronghold
    Second Battle of the Stronghold (category Battles of the Modoc War)
    Stronghold (a.k.a. Lava Beds) was a battle during the Modoc War between a band of the Native American Modoc tribe and the Army of the United States, in northeastern...
    4 KB (475 words) - 00:18, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Modoc, Indiana
    their resistance to the US Army during the Modoc War, ending in 1873. A post office has been in operation at Modoc since 1883. As of the census of 2010, there...
    11 KB (1,069 words) - 23:53, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Modoc, South Carolina
    8%. The Modoc CDP was named for the Modoc indigenous tribe of Northern California, some members of which had been captured after the Modoc War. They were...
    7 KB (579 words) - 05:52, 12 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lava Beds National Monument
    Lava Beds National Monument (category Modoc Plateau)
    National Monument is located in northeastern California, in Siskiyou and Modoc counties. The monument lies on the northeastern flank of Medicine Lake Volcano...
    29 KB (2,572 words) - 02:27, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Toby Riddle
    Toby Riddle (category People of the Modoc War)
    a Modoc woman who served as an interpreter in negotiations between the Native American Modoc tribe and the United States Army during the Modoc War (also...
    11 KB (1,143 words) - 15:41, 24 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indian reservation
    Other famous wars in this regard included the Nez Perce War and the Modoc War, which marked the last conflict officially declared a war. By the late 1870s...
    81 KB (10,156 words) - 02:00, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Upper Klamath Lake
    Upper Klamath Lake. In 1873, the Native Americans were defeated in the Modoc War, and were relocated to a reservation on the north side of the lake. Being...
    13 KB (1,363 words) - 08:46, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Captain Jack's Stronghold
    Captain Jack's Stronghold (category Modoc War)
    Kintpuash who was also known as Captain Jack. During the Modoc War in 1873, Captain Jack along with 53 Modoc warriors, and numerous women and children in a band...
    5 KB (566 words) - 03:49, 6 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Edwin Stanton
    politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War. Stanton's management helped organize...
    112 KB (15,076 words) - 02:44, 20 April 2024
  • provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America...
    137 KB (1,154 words) - 19:16, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Klamath Falls, Oregon
    rebellion ensued and they hid out in nearby lava beds. This led to the Modoc War of 1872–1873, which was a hugely expensive campaign for the US Cavalry...
    45 KB (4,465 words) - 03:24, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Donald McKay (scout)
    Donald McKay (scout) (category People of the Modoc War)
    known as the leader of the Warm Springs Indians during the Modoc War and American Indian Wars. Donald McKay was born in about 1836 in Oregon Territory to...
    4 KB (438 words) - 20:25, 11 January 2024
  • Drum Beat (category American Indian Wars films)
    Modoc War in its narrative, with Ladd playing a white man asked by the U.S. Army to attempt negotiations with Native Modocs who are about to wage war...
    12 KB (1,402 words) - 18:49, 20 December 2023