44 HISTORICAL TEXTS. 



Ldpgni wait61an nadshgshtipta taiinep pd-ula Mo'dokni Gen. Davis 



Two days after sixtonn Modoos to Gen. Jeff. C. DavU 



gawina; lu'uikiash tunepii'nash sha't'la kdyaktcha mAklaks5m lakl. At tina 



surrendered; ul' them tivo ho liired to hunt of the Modoca the chief. One 



3 sundc kiulaii shnu'ka Nushaltkdga p'ld-itan; shnepii'mpema : "ba k;i-i 



week over they caught the Iiead (of Willow above; they entrapped (him) : "if not 



(liira) Creek) (longer) 



shishiika kd-i mish kshaggayuapka." 



you fight, not you they will hang." 



Ndnuk mdklaks at Fort Klamath fdsha. At haslmdtko Idkirim shti- 



AU Indians then to Fort Klamath wore A talk was held judge's in 



brought. 



6 na'sh; lui laldki h(imkank tcheks, nadsliksdptanni: laki, Sk6utchisli, Blaok 



house; the judges decKared after a while, six: Captain Sk(3ntrhi8li, lljnek 



Jack, 



Jim, Boshtindga, Slu'lks, Ba'ntcho mdklaks kshaggdya. La'p ishka ati 



Jim, Boston Charley, SItllks, B&ntcho Indiana to hang. Two they took Ju a 



distant 



kaila illiuapkuga tcliushni ; vuni'pa at Fort Klamath Yamatdla I'ggaya. 



land to imprison forever; four then at Fort Klamath in Oregon they hung. 



9 At atf kafla ndnka dna mdklaks tu Mdklaksam Kaila, Quapaw mdk- 



Tbeu to a land a portion they of Modocs far off to the Indian Territory, (to) Quapaw In- 



distant brought there 



laksam shiu'lklshgishi ; ndnka Ydneks Ydmak tchia wigatan ma'ntchnish 



diane' reservation ; some at Ydneks in Oregon live close by the former 



Modokisham kaila. Kdnk she'sha ndnuk mdkldksham shellualsh vunepni 



Hodoc country. So much did cost the whole Modoc war four 



12 millions tdla. 



millioDs of dollars. 



NOTES. 



33, 1. Shdlam, etc. The return of the Modocs to the Klamath Eeserve was not 

 accomplished by Meacham before winter (liildam) ; but he had located about 300 Snake 

 Indians on Sprague Elver in the latter part of IS'ovember, 1809. Ind. Afi'. Rep. 1S70, 

 p. 68. 



33, 2. shualaUiimpka means, in official jiarlance, to administer or superintend a 

 district ; to be agent for. 



33, 2. Koketat. This appears to be the same locality where Ben Wright had met. 

 the Modocs in council (1852) and where his volunteers, placed in ambush, massacred 

 over forty of their number. The Natural Bridge, or, as the Modoc has it, the "Perpet- 

 ual Bridge", is a low and flat natural arch overflowed dui'ing a part of the year by the 

 swelling waters of Lost River. Mr. A. B. Meacham, then superintendent of the Indian 

 reservations of Oregon, met the Modocs on that spot to induce them to settle again 

 within the limits of the Klamath Reservation, a large tract of land assigned to the 

 tribes of this section by treaty of October 14, 1864. They had left the reservation in 

 1865, and in April 1806 the Walp4pi band of Snake Indians, under their chief Panlini, 

 followed their example. 



34, 4. The treaty of October 14, 1864 shows the names of twenty Klamath chiefs 

 and headmen, of four Modoc, and of two Snake chiefs and subchiefs as signers. The 

 Modoc names are: Schonchin, Stakitut, Keintpoos, Chucke-i-ox. Keintpoos is Captain 



