Klamath
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Oregon
Approximately ten thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Klamath and the Modoc moved into an area encircled by the Great Basin to the east, the Cascades to the west, the central Plateau to the north, and the present-day California border. Because of these natural boundaries, the Klamath remained isolated from European Americans longer than many neighboring tribes. Klamath culture remained intact into the 1800's, and when trapper Peter Skene Ogden met the Klamath in 1826, he noted that they owned one horse. Early Klamath population figures are estimated at about a thousand.
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