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Many of the battles fought during the Modoc War happened in what is now Lava Beds National Monument while several key conflicts, including the Battle of Lost River, which happened Nov. 29, 1872, were ...
For the first time since the Modoc Nation, formerly known as the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma, was granted federal recognition as a tribe in 1973, the group has a new chief. Robert Burkybile III was electe...
New Book Provides Insight into Conflict with Tribe over Tule Lake Site Posted On By MARTHA NAKAGAWA, Rafu Contributor Some in the Nikkei community have wondered why the Tule Lake Committee is feuding with an Indigenous tribe. There have been comments that this looks bad for optics to have one community of color quarreling with another community of color. “Mass Murder in California’s Empty Quarter: A Tale of Tribal Treachery at the Cedarville Rancheria” by Ray A. March devotes a chapter to this issue. March opens the book with a mass shooting that had taken place in 2014 in Modoc Count...