Modocs

One band, called the Modocs, indulged in the amusement called "tipping the lion" which consisted in flattening the nose of the victim on his face and boring out his eyes with the fingers.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

The Klamath Indians and the tribe afterwards known as the Modocs, of whom mention will be made later on in this work, were one and the same tribe; and up to this time they did not know what it was to be whipped.

Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains Drannan, William F 1899

Klamath Indians and the tribe afterwards known as the Modocs, of whom mention will be made later on in this work, were one and the same tribe; and up to this time they did not know what it was to be whipped.

Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains William F. Drannan 1872

As a youngster, after traveling with his family to the West Coast in a wagon train from Indiana, Miller worked in the mines and lived among the Modocs on his way to becoming

Joaquin Miller 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

Modocs, and remnants of the Chinooks were collected there also, the home of the latter being in the Willamette Valley.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Can you defend the extirpation of the Modocs, or the Apaches, or a dozen others I could mention?

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

In 1873, at Tule Lake, a small band of about 60 poorly armed Modocs held out for about five months, until the Army forced them to surrender.

Homeland Security-Part 4 2007

If you will come out of the rocks and go with us, we promise to find a new home for the Modocs.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

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