1 32 KLAMATH - ENGLISH ^DICTIONAEY. 



country on the California border, Lost River etc., with the other haU": 

 36, 3-8. The first active measures taken by the Government to bring 

 back the runaway Modocs of Kintpuash to the Khimath reservation from 

 the lands which they had ceded and sold, ended in a massacre of Indian 

 women, childi'en, and defenseless whites, and thus gave rise to the Modoc 

 war: 37, 3—19. Kfntpuash with his warriors and their families retreated 

 to the lava beds, an inaccessible tract of land impregnable by mere 

 assault, set up his "headquarters" in Wright's cave, and resisted all 

 attempts of the American troops to carry his position from January 16 

 to the bombardment of the lava beds, April 16-18, 1873: 42, 18-43, 2. 

 The progress of the war, which up to April had been exceedingly slow 

 and meager in results, became more active only on account of the assas- 

 sination of two of the Peace Commissioners, a dastardly act in which 

 Kintpuash had played the most prominent part: 42, 1-17. After leaving 

 the "rocky cave" and the lava beds, K. with his warriors resisted for a 

 while successfully the regular troops in the engagements on Sand Hill, 43, 

 6-12, and Dry Lake (or Grass Lake), 43, 13-16. But finally the Indians 

 separated and this ended the Modoc campaign. K was captured June 

 1, and with five others tried in Fort Klamath, and hung October 3, 

 1873. In our texts K. is mentioned as Captain Jack, or as: laki, 

 Mo'dokni laki in 34, 3 35, 8. 17. 21. 36, 4. 10. 13. 37, 4. 5. 17. 39, 5-10. 

 18-22. 40, 2-5. 41, 6. 42, 1-5. 7. 8. 18. 44, 2-8. He was the cousin of 

 Toby Riddle, both descending from brothers, 39, 22. His name is inter- 

 preted by "Having the waterbrash", cf. kidshipka, a verb of the same 

 meaning, though provided with another suffix; others explain it, though 

 incorrectly, by the Shasti term kimpi, as referring to his high, tall 

 stature Cf. Kil'mpu, and Notes to 34, 4. 8. 42, 1. etc., especially the 

 Note to 35, 8. Oregonians wrote his name: Kreintpoos, Keintpoos. 



k i n t c h d m p 6 1 i , d. kikantchdmpgli to return, go or ride hack in a file; to 

 go home single file, 85, 12. Der. kfntchna, -p6li. 



k i n t c h {\ n t k , d. kikantchcintko (I) adj. passable for travelers walking or 

 riding single file. (2) adj., open for passage, practicable: tfdsh gfnshantk 

 luitakt it is good walking through here. (3) subst., narrow way or pass, 

 pathway: ketcha k. /oo^2^a</^. Uer. kintchna, q. v. Cf. ginszAntko. 



