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This Klamath County TTTP Project is adoptable. If interested, you may contact the state administrator with your plan on how to build this site.
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Welcome To Klamath County Oregon TTTP Genealogy and History
Don Kelly, NW district, state and county administrator
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We are the Klamath Tribes: The Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin. The Tribes' mission is to protect, preserve, and enhance the spiritual, cultural, and physical values and resources of the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin Peoples. Don..... As the Indians derived spiritual support from their mountains and all nature, they derived physical support from beautiful places like Tule Lake. They procured food they needed from the fish in the lake and the birds in the air. They collected tules to dry and make baskets, and other plants were dried and made into bread. When one lives in a beautiful and bountious place, other tribes try to take what you have. This has occured for thousands of years. |
As for Indian history in Klamath County played out, the Modocs Indians before being moved to the Klamath resrvation, lived in what now is Modoc County, California, lived between Clear Lake and Tule Lake just below the border with Oregon. Around 1850 wagon train masters looked for a safer trail that the traditional Oregon Trail. The problem with this trail that branched south off the Oregon Trail in Idaho, crossed through Nevada to California and passed right through Modoc Country. Near Tule Lake (top) the Modocs attacked several wagon trains and killed everyone they could. So the army with militia and volunteers went to war with the Modoc and in 1855 nearly wiped them out and hanged their chiefs. Unableto get along with the Klamath Indians (cousins) the government after a time gave them a reservation off of the Klamath Indian reservation where they stayed even to today. Edited for relevant content by donkelly. It seems strange that the Modoc Indians attacked wagon trains thathad already passed through their lands and were on their way to Orgon and away from the Modoc homeland. Yet part of the answer may lie in the Modocs after trying to live with the Klamath's, left the reseavation and went back to Clearlake only to find it settled in his absence by white people, who wanted the government to send them back to the Klamath reservation I really don't blame the Indians for being upset. MORE: |
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