Klamath

In the record

The United States made 2 treaties and agreements that name Klamath as a party, from California Treaty Q: Camp Klamath, 1851 (unratified) to Treaty with the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin Band of Snake, 1864.

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 5 cessions of land from Klamath: about 19 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 2 of them came through treaties the Senate never ratified. The largest was Land of the Klamath, Modok and others in California and Oregon, ceded 1864 (area 462), about 14 million acres, ceded under Treaty with the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin Band of Snake, 1864.

The atlas records 2 broken treaty promises involving Klamath: Termination policy: House Concurrent Resolution 108 (1953) and Public Law 280 and Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin: the 1864 treaty and termination (1954-1961). One court case turned on its rights: Mattz v. Arnett.

The records group it with Klamath Tribes. Today, Klamath Tribes carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.