Some of the Modoc Indians left with him, and the band returned to their hunting ground along the Lost River. Captain Jack renounced the Treaty of 1864 and left the reservation in 1865. The treatment of the Modocs by the Klamath, together with the uncustomary rules of the reservation, caused a rift among the Modocs. The man finally selected was a Klamath native. Instead of hereditary chiefs for each tribe, the Indian men voted for a single reservation chief. The Indian agents on the reservation also encouraged the Indians to establish a restructured leadership. Rails, as payment for the use of Klamath territory. They demanded concessions, including split wood The Klamath, feeling superior to the dispossessed Modocs, harassed and ridiculed their fellow Indians. The reservation, however, was located on former Klamath territory and included none of the Modoc's former hunting grounds.
All the Modocs, Klamath and Pit River Indians were to be removed to this tract of land. This treaty established a reservation at Klamath Lake, across the California-Oregon boundary. 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. Wright himself shot Captain Jack's father with a revolver. 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. 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. The Modocs, including Captain Jack's father, responded with violence. A reprisal party led by the miner, Jim Crosby, did not find the responsible parties, who were members of the Pit River tribe, and took out their frustrations on the Modocs instead. Because the horses from the train ended up in the possession of the Modocs, the tribe was blamed for the raid. In the early 1850s, Indians attacked a wagon train of immigrants on their way to the West Coast. By the 1850s, however, white pressure on the Indian lands, aggravated by the 1848 California Gold Rush, led to conflict. The Modocs lived relatively peacefully in the territory surrounding Clear Lake, Tule Lake and the Lost River. He was born along the lower Lost River, near the California-Oregon border, in the Wa'chamshwash Village, around 1837. Little is known about Captain Jack's life prior to the age of 25. His death marked the end of a story of discrimination and conflict between Indians and whites, the Modocs and other northern California tribes, and different factions within the Modoc tribe. He was executed by hanging on October 3, 1873. Captain Jack was captured in June 1873 and charged with the murder of General Edward Canby during negotiations. The protestors secluded themselves in the Lava Beds and held off the army for nearly a year. troops from their former ancestral lands. Protesting unsuitable conditions on the Klamath Reservation, he led a band of about 50 warriors, resisting forced removal by U.S. Captain Jack (ca 1837-1873) was a major figure in the Modoc War of 1872-1873.
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