Ancient Modocs of California and Oregon
Author: Carrol B. Howe
Publisher: Binford & Mort Publishing
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780832303388
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Mining California
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2010-08-24
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0374707200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE KLAMAT
Author: S. a. (Samuel Alfred) 1879-196 Barrett
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-27
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781371046668
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Author: Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997-05-12
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780520209428
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The Material Culture of the Klamath Lake and Modoc Indians of Northeastern California and Southern Oregon (Classic Reprint)
Author: S. A. Barrett
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-08-19
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781333273262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Material Culture of the Klamath Lake and Modoc Indians of Northeastern California and Southern Oregon In addition to the various articles of dress mentioned in speak ing of the uses of tule, the Klamath and Modoc make a belt either from the fiber of the inner bark of certain trees or from human hair. These are worn by the women in every-day dress. Plate 17, fig. 7, shows one of these belts of fiber. As a brush for dressing the hair the tail of the porcupine is used (pl. 22, fig. Usually the longer spines are removed and the Skin of the tail is then stuffed either with Shredded tule or with shredded sage-brush bark. In dressing the hair the brush is drawn through it directly against the points of the spines, which, as may be seen from the illustration, lie almost at. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
The Modoc War
Author: Robert Aquinas McNally
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1496204220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States' conquest of Native America's peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally tells the wrenching story of the Modoc War of 1872-73, one of the nation's costliest campaigns against North American Indigenous peoples, in which the army placed nearly one thousand soldiers in the field against some fifty-five Modoc fighters. Although little known today, the Modoc War dominated national headlines for an entire year. Fought in south-central Oregon and northeastern California, the war settled into a siege in the desolate Lava Beds and climaxed the decades-long effort to dispossess and destroy the Modocs. The war did not end with the last shot fired, however. For the first and only time in U.S. history, Native fighters were tried and hanged for war crimes. The surviving Modocs were packed into cattle cars and shipped from Fort Klamath to the corrupt, disease-ridden Quapaw reservation in Oklahoma, where they found peace even more lethal than war. The Modoc War tells the forgotten story of a violent and bloody Gilded Age campaign at a time when the federal government boasted officially of a "peace policy" toward Indigenous nations. This compelling history illuminates a dark corner in our country's past.
MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE KLAMATH LAKE AND MODOC INDIANS OF NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN... OREGON.
Author: S. A. BARRETT
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033398623
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Author: S. A. Barrett
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Published: 2018-02-05
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781376756128
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Shaman's Dream
Author: Lu Mattson
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Published: 2012-06-21
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 1456609203
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shaman's Dream: the Modoc War is a literary non-fiction account of the 1873 standoff between besieged Modoc Indians and the United States Army on the California/Oregon border. The book - a kaleidoscope of a vested interests' - draws together eye-witness accounts by settlers, military and governmental records, reports, diaries, letters, press releases, telegrams - in a narrative that is a multi-cultural evocation of one of the last of the a Indian Wars.' A new, over-zealous Superintendent of Indians for Oregon precipitated the a war' in an ill-advised attempt to corral a group of Modocs and return them to the Klamath reservation. Loss of life and the burning of the camp at Lost River was repaid by Modocs escaping to a stronghold in the lava beds, where they were besieged for months, and where they were persuaded the a Ghost Dance' would save them. The standoff between the native Americans and the United States army eventually ended, but not until peace commissioners were wounded and murdered. The Army trial of the accused ended with hangings and the exile of the tribe, subsequently to Oklahoma. President U. S. Grant's a Peace Policy' whereby Christian ministers were employed to oversee the reservations died in the aftermath of these events. But most deeply wounded of all - and more lastingly in this, some would say, inadvertently religious war - were the shamans.
The Material Culture of the Klamath Lake and Modoc Indians of Northeastern California and Southern Oregon
