On this date 150 years ago, a Modoc warrior from Southern Oregon died at Alcatraz. He was one of the first Native Americans sentenced to the island prison. June 27, 2025. contribute now.

A group of soldiers pose with their guns during the Modoc Indian War in 1873. What happened to California Native Americans in the mid-19th century was not all that different from what happened to ...

The Modoc War in 1872-73, near the Oregon border, was the sole Native American conflict in American history in which a full ranking general, Edward R.S. Canby, was killed.

The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age Robert Aquinas McNally. Bison, $34.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4962-0179-9 ...

On the morning of Friday, Oct. 3, 1873, as many as 2,000 spectators gathered in the remote military outpost of Fort Klamath in rural Southern Oregon for the execution of Modoc war leaders. It ...

Event details about Modoc War photos: How Native Americans Represented National Anxieties in San Francisco on September 28, 2016 - watch, listen, photos and tickets ...

The film "Modoc" depicts the conflict between the Modoc tribe and white settlers in the 19th ... Keywords Modoc, Native American, Captain Jack, settlers, conflict, colonization, betrayal ...

A Native American-led coalition is pressing the Biden administration to designate three new national monuments in California, with some fearing the chance to protect these areas from mining ...

For Indigenous people, Native American Heritage Month carries a different weight this year. Since 1990, November has been a time for America’s first people to share their culture, traditions ...

In reality, she was speaking from inside an office in Modoc County, a region that was engulfed in smoke. ... Still, for many Native Americans, the recognition is a kind of bittersweet validation.

To defeat some 60 native warriors, the government spent an estimated $400,000–$500,000, the equivalent of $8.4 million–$10.5 million today, and counted more than 100 casualties.

On an 1870 cover of Harper's Weekly, President Ulysses S. Grant is shown greeting the Oglala Chief Red Cloud who came to visit him in Washington, D.C. Library of Congress The man elected president ...