It was named for the Modoc people who traditionally had their territory in this area.

They were most closely linked with the Modoc people.

The area around the lake was the home of the Modoc people prior to European contact.

The land of the reservation did not provide enough food for both the Klamath and the Modoc peoples.

It is named for Old Schonchin, a chief of the Modoc people during the late nineteenth century.

The flow of non-Indians into their ancestral homelands had an enormous effect on the culture of the Modoc people.

Captain Jack led 52 warriors in a band of more than 150 Modoc people who left the Klamath Reservation.

It is the traditional language of the Klamath and Modoc peoples, each of whom spoke a dialect of the language.

In 1865, Kintpuash, a Modoc leader better known as Captain Jack, led the Modoc people from the reservation back to their home.

At the time of European encounter, the Modoc people lived in what is now northern California, near Lost River and Tule Lake.

The petroglyphs are carved along the face of a former island of ancient Tule Lake, in a region historically of the Modoc people territory.

There were several Modoc chiefs at the Quapaw Agency after Bogus but they were only recognized as such by the Modoc people.

The Klamath spoke one dialect of the Klamath-Modoc language, the other being spoken by the Modoc people, who lived south of the Klamath.

They are descendants of Captain Jack's band of Modoc people, removed from the West Coast after the Modoc Wars.

The Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma is a federally recognized tribe, the smallest in Oklahoma, of Modoc people.

It was the most common food fish in the area, providing food for the Klamath and Modoc people, as well as local settlers, who also fed it to their livestock.

The Modoc people, having been removed to Oregon to share a reservation with the Klamath, traditional rivals, wanted a reservation created on Lost River, near present-day Merrill, Oregon.

They also worried about potential collaboration of the tribe with former enemies, the Modoc people, being led by John Schonchin and Captain Jack (Modicus), in what became the Modoc War.

In 1875 he met with Alfred B. Meacham, a member of the peace commission to end the Modoc War, and members of the Modoc people, including Toby Riddle and Frank Riddle, who were on a national lecture tour.

Because of the tribal fracturing produced during the Modoc War and most of the Native Americans from the region have long since moved into other areas, no ethnographic study was ever done with Modoc peoples to record the probable meaning of the petroglyphs.

Their homes bore structural similarities to the semi-subterranean homes of the Klamath and Modoc peoples to the east, who spoke languages in the Plateau Penutian family, and to those of the Shasta to the south, who spoke various Shastan languages (which may be part of the hypothetical Hokan family).