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Modoc, n.1 and a.|ˈməʊdɒk|
Also Mo-dock. Pl. unchanged.
[Klamath or Modoc, either directly f. mo:wat'a:k southern lake (f. mo:wat south), the name given by them to Tule Lake (in the region inhabited by the Modoc), or f. mo:wat'a:kkni: people of the southern lake, Modocs.]
A. n. A member of a North American Indian people living on the Oregon-California border; also, their language.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Modoc.
1854Rep. U.S. Bureau Indian Affairs 262 East of this tribe..is a tribe known as the Mo-docks. They speak the same language as the Klamaths. Ibid. 263 The country around An-coose and Modoc lakes is claimed and occupied by the Modoc Indians. 1878A. S. Gatschet in Amer. Antiquarian July 82 The Klamath language..is spoken by two tribes only, the Klamath Lake people and the Modocs, in two dialects which are almost identical and therefore should be called subdialects. 1890― Klamath Indians of S.W. Oregon i. p. xxiii, A smaller pine species, Pinus contorta (kápka, in Modoc ḵúga)..is peeled by the Indians to a height of twenty feet. 1907F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 918/1 The Modoc language is practically the same as the Klamath. 1949New Yorker 2 Apr. 25/2 Broncho Charlie's mother and father were killed by Modoc Indians. 1973A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 47 The Modoc and Klamath made tule baskets and hats. 1977C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Classification & Index World's Lang. 288 Klamath... D[ialect] also Modoc. 1984P. Matthiessen Indian Country ix. 247 The Modoc Indians north of Pit River rose in revolt. 1992E. Renfro Shasta Indians of California v. 105 While their traditions and lifeways show many similarities to those of the Shastan tribes, the Klamath and Modoc are more often classified within the Columbia Plateau Culture area rather than the Californian by anthropologists. |