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Overview
In Modoc: The Tribe That Wouldn't Die, Cheewa James, a direct descendent Modoc War hero Shkeitko, aka "Shacknasty Jim", recounts the explosive and personal story of her ancestors in a richly documented, non-fiction narrative that occasionally incorporates fictionalized inserts to help bring the story to life-an asset for school and family reading. Covering Modoc history from ancestral times to the present, this unique book includes over 100 rare black and white photographs of the Modoc War, historic Modoc men, women and children--many handed down through Cheewa's family--and life from times past. There are 40 color photographs of Modocs and their activities in current times. The book contains accounts from the letters of soldiers and eye-witnesses never before published. The six-month long Modoc War, fought in 1872-73, pitted some fifty-five Modoc warriors against 1,000 U.S. soldiers in the jagged, hostile terrain of today's Lava Beds National Monument, where both warriors and families held out in Captain Jack's Stronghold, a massive lava-cave maze named after the Modoc leader. The surviving Modocs were exiled to Oklahoma Indian Territory, where they faced the added trauma of disease and corrupt officials. Some later returned to the Klamath Reservation in Oregon, where Cheewa was born.
This edition has been updated by the author for the 150th Anniversary of the Modoc War, 2022 - 2024. Commemorations held on ancestral Modoc land will acknowledge and honor the descendants of Modocs, settlers, and military personnel from this unforgettable time in Native American history.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780879612757 |
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Publisher: | Naturegraph & Keven Brown Publications |
Publication date: | 09/17/2021 |
Pages: | 352 |
Sales rank: | 841,510 |
Product dimensions: | 5.58(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.69(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword 11
Acknowledgments 13
Chronology 15
The Modoc War 17
Prelude 19
Roots of War 25
Back Home in Lost River Country 37
The Two Jesses 45
Lost River Battle 51
The Nightmare Escalates 63
Confronting the Stronghold 71
Begin the Body Count 77
Words, Words, and More Words 91
To Kill or Not to Kill-That is the Question 103
Second Battle for the Stronghold 119
Thomas-Wright Battle 127
The Beginning of the End 137
Jack's Legs Give Out 147
A Trial, Hanging, and an Exile 159
Modoc Post-War 169
The Exile 171
The Greed for Modoc Land Continues 177
The New Homeland 181
The Jones Family Indian Ring 189
Enter an Old Friend 195
More Modoc Death 203
Changing Cultures 211
The Last Historical Chief 221
The Return to Oregon 229
Two Tribes 239
The ClosingChapters 251
Ancestral Modocs 263
In the Beginning 265
The Land is Our Brother 271
The Modoc as a Social Creature 279
Sun, I Pray to You to Guide Me 285
Warfare Modoc Style 293
Endnotes: Part One 297
Endnotes: Part Two 308
Bibliography 315
Index 321