Modoc War - Wikipedia
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 States Army in northeastern California and southeastern Oregon from 1872 to 1873. [3] Eadweard Muybridge photographed the early part of the US Army's campaign.
Modoc War - The Oregon Encyclopedia
The Modoc War, waged mostly over the winter and spring of 1872-1873, thrust the border between Oregon and California into the national spotlight. During peace negotiations, General E.R.S. Canby was killed, the first full-ranking U.S. Army general to lose his life in a conflict between Indians and the federal government.
Modoc War 1872-1873 - Encyclopedia.com
2018年5月8日 · One of the costliest of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, the Modoc War officially began on 29 November 1872 because of a misunderstanding between the Modoc Indians and the United States. Settlers, who began moving through Modoc territory as early as 1843, set off conflicts that led eventually to war.
Modoc War - Lava Beds National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
The war lasted six months, from November 29, 1872 to June 1, 1873, although tensions leading to the conflict began much earlier. Much of the war was centered around Captain Jack’s Stronghold, a natural lava fortress characterized by deep trenches and small caves.
The Modoc War: A Little Indian War Goes Big - HistoryNet
2021年3月9日 · By 1873 a genocidal campaign of war and attrition had whittled that number down to 30,000. Although military action concluded with the Modoc War, the demographic decline continued, the state’s Indian population dropping to little more than 15,000 by 1900. Fortunately, the moral arc of the universe is long, and it bends toward justice.
150 years ago, the US military executed Modoc war leaders in Fort ...
2023年10月3日 · In July 1873, the U.S. Army charged six Modoc leaders with war crimes against the United States for the peace commission attacks. James says many called the trial illegal.
Winema and the Modoc War | National Archives
2023年1月20日 · Winema gained national attention because of her role in the Modoc War of 1872–1873, a war that lasted approximately eight months but that finds its roots in the Indian policy of the 19th century. In 1864, under pressure from settlers, the government decided to move the Modocs onto the Klamath Reservation in southern Oregon.
Modoc Vengeance: The 1873 Modoc War in Northern California and Southern ...
2012年1月1日 · In 1873, the Modoc War in Northern California was big news - international aswell as national. Historians have written that were it not for Custer's shocking defeat at the Little Big Horn three years later, it would stand out as the most significant Indian war …
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LibGuides: Modoc War, 1872-1873: Introduction
2022年10月6日 · Modoc War was an armed conflict of 1872-1873 between the Modoc band of Indians led by Captain Jack (Kintpuash) and the United States Army in northeastern California and southeastern Oregon. Several battles took place in Lava Beds caverns, South of Tule Lake, in the so-called “Captain Jack Stronghold”.
Bechmarks: June 1, 1873: The Modoc-Lava Beds War Ends
2015年7月20日 · After about two decades of occasional violence (mostly involving California and Oregon militiamen), forced relocation efforts and on-again, off-again negotiations between the Modoc and the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs (later renamed the Bureau of Indian Affairs), an armed conflict began between the U.S. Army and factions of Modoc beginning in t...