Modoc War
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The Modoc War, or the Modoc Campaign, was an armed conflict between the Native American Modoc people and the United States Army in northeastern California and southeastern Oregon between 1872 and 1873
Engraving of soldiers recovering the bodies of the slain May 3, 1873
Schonchin Butte, a cinder cone named for Old Schonchin, a chief of the Modoc people during the late nineteenth century.
Major General E.R.S Canby
Captain Jack
Kintpuash
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Kintpuash, also known as Kientpoos, Keintpoos, or by his English name Captain Jack, was a Modoc leader from present-day northern California and southern Oregon. His name in the Modoc language translat
Modoc War
…militias encouraged and carried out violence against the Modoc and other Indigenous peoples. After being relocated by force to the Klamath Reservation, Kintpuash, also known as Captain Jack, eventually led 52 warriors along with 150 Modoc women and children back to their traditional lands around the lava beds…
Kintpuash in 1864
Jack's family—Lizzy (young wife), Mary (his sister), Old Wife and daughter
L to R, standing: US Indian agent, Winema (Toby) and her husband Frank Riddle; other Modoc women in front (1873)
Donald McKay and Jack's capturers