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5 unusual facts about Klamath people


Albert Samuel Gatschet

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

Klamath people

The tribes requested Lindsay Applegate as the agent to represent the United States to them.

The United States frontiersman Kit Carson admired their arrows, which were reported to be able to shoot through a horse.

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.

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.


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.

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.

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

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.


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