EARLY TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF MODOCS AND CAPTAIN 



WRIGHT'S MASSACRE. 



Given in the Modoc Dialect by Toby Riddle. 



E-ukshikui Modoki'sliasli slieggdi^a lapgshaptdnkni taiinap illo'la at; 



The Klamath Lakes from the Modocs separated seven times ten years dow; 



tanktchlkni kd-i pen nadsha'shak tchia. Gumpatuash E-ukshikni'shash 



<they) since then not again together livetl. The K6mbatuash from the Klaniaths 



shegg4t/a vun^pni taunap illo'la at. 3 



separated forty years now. 



K4-iu iu4klakshash sh^lhialsht, tu'mi B6slitiii Ya'matala m^dshantko 



Before the (Modoc) people had fought, a uumber of Americans to Oregon emigrating 



k6-idsha welekapkash Modoklshash slmuka, y6wish kt^ktaknan tuntish 



an njiiy old woman Modoc caught, (both) heels having cut through a rope 



ehtunka, to pi tan wiig'n shlitchta, shpuku'gatchnan shiiika, Shdtash B6shti- 6 



passed behind a wagon tied (her), by dragging killed (her), Snakes Anieri- 



nasli shuenkslit pallo'tan hu'nkglara B6slitinam sha-dmakshash. B6shtiu 



cans having murdered (and) robbed of this of Americans party. Americans 



tdnkt lupiddna hun wel^kstim tchekeli kititchna. 



at that firstly of this old woman the blood spilled. 



time 



Shalam 1 852, nash Boshtin Capt'n Wright sheshatko shu'ldshash 9 



(In the) fall (of) 16.V2 one American, Captain Wright named, soldiers 



1-amnatko Mo'doka kaila gdtpa, mdklakshash shana-iili6ka sbish6kash. 



baTing with him (to the) Modoc country came to the (Modoc) people because he desired to make war. 



Kd-i mdklakshash shl^a. Modokishash snaw^dshash lutatkdtki pish 



Not (any) Modocs he saw, A Modoc woman going to interpret for him 



found. 



sha'tela; sha'tela hunk snaw(^dshash: mdklaks gatpdntki, slm-utdnktgi pi'sh 12 



he hired; he instructed this woman (to say) : that the should come to meet in council with 



Modocs him 



giiiga maklaks; shapiya, mdklakshash nash mu'nish wiishmush shiukit'stka. 



the Modocs; he announced (for) the Modocs one large ox he would kill. 



Maklakshash shapiyulan Ta-uni shpaiitish shnidktcha. At tiVm MoMokni 



The Modocs having notified, to Troka poison he sent ft»r. Then many Modocs 



town 



gdtpa; at tchek hunk wushmush shiukulan shpautish itd. Na'sh tche'k 15 



arrived; then forthwith the ox having butchered the poison he put on. One then 



hunk Ydraakni B6shtinash tchawinatko Mo'dokishash shapiya ka-i 



Warm Spring Indian the Americans having lived among the Modocs notified not 



tchu'leksh pdtki, shpautish itdmpkash gfsht. At tankt kd-i tidsli liem- 



(any) meat they should poison paton it having been. Nuw at that not well it was 



eat, time 



kdnka, Mo'dokni at ga'nipole, 18 



talked, the Modocs then left for home. 



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