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4 unusual facts about Klamath


Ditonic scale

Several ditonic scales were noted about the Modoc and Klamath tribes of the North American West Coast, and are also found in the Great Plains in the rituals of the 1800s Ghost Dance religion.

Klamath, California

Tom Darby – American journalist, Nevada Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee, author and blogger.

Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife v. Klamath Indian Tribe

The Supreme Court reversed the previous decisions in the District Court and the Court of Appeals stating that the exclusive right to hunt, fish, and gather roots, berries, and seeds on the lands reserved to the Klamath Tribe by the 1864 Treaty was not intended to survive as a special right to be free of state regulation in the ceded lands that were outside the reservation after the 1901 Agreement.

In 1982 the Klamath Tribe filed suit against the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, along with various state officials, in Federal District Court seeking an injunction against the Department's interference with tribal members' hunting and fishing activities on the previously ceded lands in the 1901 Agreement.


2002 Klamath River fish kill

The 2002 Klamath River fish kill occurred on the Klamath River in California in September 2002.

Ady, Oregon

In prior years, northbound freight and passengers bound for Klamath Falls and other eastern Oregon destinations left the Southern Pacific main line at Weed, California, using the McCloud Railway to transit the southern slopes of Mt. Shasta to Bartle, California.

Albert Samuel Gatschet

His study of the Klamath people located in present-day Oregon, published in 1890, is recognized as outstanding.

Butte Creek

Little Butte Creek, a Rogue River tributary in Jackson and Klamath counties, Oregon

California chaparral and woodlands

Many Bioregionalists, including poet Gary Snyder, identify the central and northern Coast Ranges, Klamath-Siskiyou, the Central Valley, and Sierra Nevada as the Shasta Bioregion or the Alta California Bioregion

California State Route 139

This would be part of a road connecting Reno, Nevada and Klamath Falls east of the Sierra Nevada, which would attract heavy traffic and improve access to Crater Lake and Lassen Volcanic National Parks.

Columbia Forest Products

The company began in 1957 in Klamath Falls, Oregon as Klamath Hardwoods, establishing its first hardwood veneer plant with 43 employees.

History of Oregon

By the 16th century, Oregon was home to many Native American groups, including the Bannock, Chasta, Chinook, Kalapuya, Klamath, Molalla, Nez Perce, Takelma, and Umpqua.

Honeypot Wood

Plants in the reserve include Mercurialis perennis (dog's mercury), Anemone nemorosa (wood anemone), plants in the genus Neottia (formerly known as Listera, commonly known as twayblades), Paris quadrifolia (True-lover's Knot or Herb Paris), Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta, Common Bluebell or Bluebell) and St John’s wort (Tipton's weed, chase-devil, or Klamath weed).

John Rudey

Since 1992, he has been Chairman of the U.S. Timberlands Services Company, Manager of the U.S. Timberlands Klamath Falls of Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Chief Executive Officer of Garrin Properties Holdings.

KAGO

KAGO-FM, a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States

KLAD

KLAD-FM, a radio station (92.5 FM) licensed to Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States

Kram

KRAM, a radio station (1070 AM) licensed to serve West Klamath, Oregon, United States

Olene, Oregon

According to William Gladstone Steel, Olene is a Klamath word meaning "eddy place" or "place of drift." O. C. Applegate adopted the word for the site in 1884 when the post office was established.

Quartz Valley Indian Community

The Quartz Valley Indian Community of the Quartz Valley Reservation of California is a federally recognized tribe of Klamath, Karuk, and Shasta Indians in Siskiyou County, California.

Scott Bar salamander

It was discovered in 2001, and is currently known from a few locations near the confluence of the Klamath and Scott Rivers, hence its common name Scott Bar salamander.

Spider Ledesma

-- A source for the match, not merely some description of Stevens. --> Ledesma played for several years at tournaments in the Northwest on Indian reservations of the Chiloquin (Klamath), Hoopa (Hupa), Warm Springs, and Yakima.

Trinity Alps

The northern backbone of the Klamath Range are the Salmon Mountains and Scott Mountains.

Wedding dress

The tribes of Northern California (which include the Klamath, the Modoc and the Yurok) had a traditional bridal dress woven in symbolic colors: white for the east, blue for the south, yellow (orange) for the west; and black for the north.


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