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English: Title: Bulletin

Identifier: bulletin3011907smit Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology Publisher: Washington : G. P. O. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: 918 MOCtrCK—MODOC [b. a. e. justifiable supposition, in the absence of further knowledge, isthatthe threeorfour small bands were the remnants of a laro-er tribeor of tribesAvhich,whilemakinstheir way southward, liad been reduced bv war, pestilence, or other calamity, and had been compelled to consolidate and take refuge under the Choctaw. Consult Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the East, ]!u]l. B. A. E., 1894. See Caphians. ?jQn'° w~f'l""ll(^'°°' •" Margry, Dt'c, iv, jr.l. imx Moctoby.—Iberville (1699), ibid., 195. Moelo- Ville (1699) in French, Hist. Coll. La ii 99 1875 Mocuck. Defined bv Bartlett' (Diet' of Americanisms, 399, 1877) as "a term applied to the box of birch bark in which sugar is kept bv the Chippewa Indians." In the forms mcdrik, viocock, mocuck, mowkuirk, mnkuk, the word is known to the literature of the settlement of Canada and the W. in the early years of the 19th century, and is now in use among the English-speaking people of the maple-sugar region about the great lakes, and among the Canadian French as macaque. A trader in ^Minnesota in 1820 (cited by Jenks in 19th Rep. B. A. E. 1103, 1900) speaksof "a mocock of sugar' Aveighing about 40 pounds." The word is derived from makak, which in the Chippewa and closely related Algonquian dialects signifies a bag, box, or other like receptacle of birch-bark. (a. f. c. ) Modoc (from Mmtokni, 'southerners'). A Lutuamian tribe, forming the southern division of that stock, in s. w. Oregon. The Modoc language is practically the same as the Klamath, the dialectic differences being extremely slight. This linguistic identity would indicate that the local separation of the two tribes must have been comparatively recent and has never been complete. The former habitat of , the Modoc included Little Klamath lake Modoc lake, Tule lake. Lost River valley' and Clear lake, and extended at times as far E. as Goose lake. The most impor- tant bands of the tribe were at Little Kla- math lake, Tule lake, and in the valley of Lost r. Frequent conflicts with white immigrants, in which both sides were guilty of many atrocities, have given the tribe an unfortunate reputation. In 1864 the Modoc joined tlie Klamath in ceding their territory to the United States and re- moved to Klamath res. They seem never to have been contented, however and made persistent efforts to return and occupy their former lands on Lost r and Its vicinity. In 1870 a prominent chief named Kintpuash (q. y.),commonly known to history as Captain Jack, led the more turbulent portion of the tribe back to the California border and ob- stinately refused to return to the res- ervation. The first attempt to brina back the runaways by force brought on the Modoc war of 1872-73. After some struggles Kintpuash and his band re- treated to the lava-beds on the California frontier, and from .Tan. to Apr., 1873

Text Appearing After Image: CHIKCHIKAM LUPATKUELATKO (" SCAR-FACED CHARLEY") — successfully resisted the attempts of the troops to dislodge them. The progress of the war had been slow until April of

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