The Modocs, including Captain Jack's father, responded with violence. In 1856 the Modocs ambushed another wagon train at a place called Wagakanna, which the white survivors later labelled "Bloody Point." In response to the massacre, the well-known mountain man and Indian fighter, Ben Wright, organized a vigilante group specifically to stalk and kill Indians. In an attempt to preserve the peace, 45 of the Modoc leaders were invited to a conference and were ambushed by Wright and his men. Wright himself shot Captain Jack's father with a revolver. Life at the Klamath ReservationĬaptain Jack is said to have replaced his father as chief of the clan but it was actually his uncle, Old Schonchin, who compelled the Modocs to abide by the Treaty of 1864. This treaty established a reservation at Klamath Lake, across the California-Oregon boundary. The reservation, however, was located on former Klamath territory and included none of the Modoc's former hunting grounds.Īll the Modocs, Klamath and Pit River Indians were to be removed to this tract of land. They demanded concessions, including split wood The Klamath, feeling superior to the dispossessed Modocs, harassed and ridiculed their fellow Indians. Rails, as payment for the use of Klamath territory. The Indian agents on the reservation also encouraged the Indians to establish a restructured leadership.
Instead of hereditary chiefs for each tribe, the Indian men voted for a single reservation chief. The man finally selected was a Klamath native. The treatment of the Modocs by the Klamath, together with the uncustomary rules of the reservation, caused a rift among the Modocs. Captain Jack renounced the Treaty of 1864 and left the reservation in 1865. Some of the Modoc Indians left with him, and the band returned to their hunting ground along the Lost River.
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