The Modoc War of 1872 to 1873 was one of the costliest American Indian wars in U.S. history, considering the number of people involved. For nearly seven months, a handful of Modoc Indian warriors and ...

Join California Historical Society in an engaging exploration of the history of the Modoc War with a conversation inspired by images and collections seen in CHS' exhibition, Sensationalist Portayls of ...

Black Jim, Boston Charley, Schonchin John and Captain Jack are returning to their home on Tribal lands following the ...

It was the only major Native American war fought in California and it gripped the nation’s attention almost 150 years ago as a band of warriors held off a much larger force of the U.S. Army in a harsh ...

This photo of Edward R.S. Canby was taken in 1873, shortly before he became the only U.S. Army general to be killed in the Indian Wars. Canby is buried in the Crown Hill National Cemetery in ...

NMAI copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. Contents Prologue: Duel at Lost River -- Holy lands here ...

Sam Hilliard, a humanities professor at Louisiana State University, wrote an article, “Indian Land Cessions,” in which he ...

High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the West. James, 69, a Modoc Indian and member of one of the three tribes ...

ANTHREF copy 39088010703403 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Purchased from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature.