The Modocs (whose name means southern), they belong to the group linguistic Penuti and they speak an almost identical language to that of the tribe Klamath. I/you/they are appropriated in the outskirtses of the lake Klamath, in southwestern Oregon. They were fishermen and nomadic hunters. You/they opposed a long and brave resistance to the government when it tried of to force them to leave their territories of origin to settle in the reserves. Driven by the head Kintpuash, called by the white Captain Jack, during the so-called war 1872-1873 Modocs, were concealed in Beds it Washes them, a region of basaltic rocks, of deep crepaccis and of innumerable caverns. For months they were defended against soldiers' thousand equipped with guns. After the surrender, the heads Modoc had hung himself/herself, presumably to have killed two members of the mission of peace of the United States. A part of the tribe had installed in the Indian Territory in Oklahoma; another had installed in the Reserve Klamath, where today they live hundred individuals survivors.
