Modoc

A people

Deep blue Crater Lake in early spring with the cinder cone of Wizard Island rising near the snow-edged west rim.
Bob Galindo (Bobjgalindo), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

Background

The Modoc's country ran well south of the Klamath Marsh. Their lands included the Lower Lost River and the country around Clear Lake, and their territory ran south as far as the mountains beyond Goose Lake, in northeastern California. The Klamath Tribes are the federally recognised government of the Modoc as well as of the Klamath and the Yahooskin-Paiute, and their history page counts six tribes of the Klamaths bound by loyalty and family.

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Parks on its homelands

Deep blue Crater Lake in early spring with the cinder cone of Wizard Island rising near the snow-edged west rim.Crater Lake National Park

The Modoc are one of the three peoples the Klamath Tribes' own history names, and the same page places the Modoc's lands on the Lower Lost River, around Clear Lake, and south as far as the mountains beyond Goose Lake. Source

Sources

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