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  • proper noun plural (Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets and Hamati.

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  • noun Plural form of Klamath.

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Examples

  • But that had been in the days when the placers petered out, when there were no wagon roads nor tugs to draw in sailing vessels across the perilous bar, and when his lonely grist mill had been run under armed guards to keep the marauding Klamaths off while wheat was ground.

    BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

  • I returned to that place in May, 1857, and at a period a little later, in consequence of the close of hostilities in southern Oregon, the Klamaths and Modocs were sent back to their own country, to that section in which occurred, in 1873, the disastrous war with the latter tribe.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • As the reservation was on land which had always been Klamath territory, the Klamaths refused to allow the Modocs to cut timber or hunt game.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • From the beginning the reservation plan was a failure, largely because the Modocs were forced to live with their traditional enemies, the Klamaths.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • That government study in the Klamaths never did find him, you know.

    Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

  • That government study in the Klamaths never did find him, you know.

    Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

  • Repeated requests were made by the Indian Bureau to the War Department to force the Modocs to go back to the Klamaths; but this was firmly opposed by General

    Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield

  • At the north lived the Klamaths, Siskiyous, Shastas, and the savage Modocs, whose months of fighting in the lava beds caused the death of General Canby and many soldiers.

    Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

  • Oregon, the Klamaths and Modocs were sent back to their own country, to that section in which occurred, in 1873, the disastrous war with the latter tribe.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

  • They went back to their old place, and declared they would die rather than go to live with the Klamaths again.

    Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield

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