![]() ![]() ![]() The Modoc War is an incredibly complicated and important piece of American history that is seldom spoken of today. A peace parley was arranged-a ruse that would lead to the deaths of 41 more Modocs. The Modoc retaliated by attacking and killing members of a California-bound wagon train. Another nearby tribe, the Pit River Tribe, attacked a white settlement, and an angry militia retaliated by killing the men, women, and children of a Modoc village, not knowing the difference between the two distinct groups. ![]() This conflict between the Modoc and the American military was the tragic consequence of what historian Robert Aquinas McNally calls "a decades-long campaign of extermination and removal that symbolizes all too much of European America's treatment of Native America and the continent." The Modoc had largely ignored the white settlers who streamed through their lands in pursuit of gold after its discovery near Yreka in 1851. In the months preceding The Scouts theatrical debuts in Baltimore, Boston, New York, and Washington D.C., Army troops and Modoc warriors had been facing off in the lava beds of northern California. ![]()
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