ALTURAS, Calif. (AP) - Federal agents have seized at least 12,000 marijuana plants from land in far Northern California that belongs to two federally recognized Indian tribes, the U.S. attorney's ...

California's Sáttítla Highlands are sacred to the Pit River and Modoc tribes. And yet less than a year after it was ...

With song and prayer, soil and prairie grass, Native American author Cheewa James recently honored the memory of her long-lost great-great uncle. Frank Modoc left his Oklahoma reservation for a Quaker ...

Captain Jack, a leader of the Modoc tribe, was born in 1837 near Tule Lake, Calif. His name in the Modoc language means “Strike the Water Brashly.” (Photo provided by Modoc Nation) Exiled To Indian ...

SALEM — Nearly 150 years ago, the nation’s attention was fixed on a remote area near the Oregon-California border, where 50 Modoc Indian soldiers were fending off a thousand U.S. Army soldiers from ...

Irving Goldman (1911-2002) was an anthropologist who conducted research among the Modoc Indians in California, the Ulkatcho Carrier of British Columbia, and the Cubeo Indians in the Vaupes region of ...

The story of the Modoc Indian War of 1872-73 in Southern Oregon and Northern California is a compelling one ---- a tale of about 40 Modoc tribe members, many of who were women and children, holding ...

The Modoc War was a “David and Goliath war,” in the words of writer and historian Doug Foster. The six-month standoff that ended in 1873 was then the costliest American-Indian conflict in lives lost ...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Mabie "Neva" Eggsman, a Modoc Indian who helped preserve the Klamath language, has died. She was 95. Eggsman was born June 2, 1908, at Whiskey Creek, a Modoc Indian settlement ...

The 11th annual Treefest display is free to see on weekdays through Dec. 31 at the Red Earth Art Center in downtown OKC's BancFirst Tower.