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Biography of Captain Jack
Name: Captain Jack
Birth Date: 1837?
Death Date: 1873
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: tribal leader
Captain Jack
Kintpuash, son of a Modoc chief, was commonly known as "Captain Jack" because of his penchant for wearing a blue military jacket with brass buttons. Captain Jack (ca 1837-1873) was a major figure in the Modoc War of 1872-1873. Protesting unsuitable conditions on the Klamath Reservation, he led a band of about 50 warriors, resisting forced removal by U.S. troops from their former ancestral lands.The protestors secluded themselves in the Lava Beds and held off the army for nearly a year. Captain Jack was captured in June 1873 and charged with the murder of General Edward Canby during negotiations. He was executed by hanging on October 3, 1873. His death marked the end of a story of discrimination and conflict between Indians and whites, the Modocs and other northern California tribes, and different factions within the Modoc tribe.Little is known about Captain Jack's life prior to the age of 25. He was born along …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the Modocs gained no ground for their efforts. The cost of the Modoc War was enormous compared to its results. The tribe requested a reserve of land with a value of approximately ,000, according to most sources. As Britt explains in Great Indian Chiefs, the government spent 0,000 on the war, in addition to losing "the lives of eight officers, thirty-nine privates, sixteen volunteers, two Indian scouts, and eighteen settlers--a trumpery affair, as wars go." The remaining Modocs were escorted to a reservation on Shawnee land in the Indian Territory. They arrived at their destination, Seneca Springs on the Quapaw Agency, almost one year after the war began. Further Reading Britt, Albert, Great Indian Chiefs, Books for Libraries Press, 1938.Dockstader, Frederick J., Great North American Indians, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.Murray, Keith A., The Modocs and Their War, University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.Native North American Almanac, edited by Duane Champagne, Gale Research, 1994.
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