The Klamath outnumbered the newcomers, and the reservation was on traditional Klamath land the Modoc complained of poor treatment and conflict with the Klamath. This was primarily occupied by their traditional rivals, the much larger Klamath tribe. Due to the pressure of white colonizers who wanted to steal and farm the fertile land in this territory, Kintpuash and his family were among the Modoc forcefully removed by the United States to the Klamath Reservation in southwestern Oregon. In 1864, the Modoc still lived in their ancestral home near Tule Lake. Jack’s family-Lizzy (young wife), Mary (his sister), Old Wife and daughter The Modoc occupied about 5,000 acres here, along what became the California-Oregon border after European colonization. Kintpuash was born about 1837 into a Modoc family in their ancestral territory near Tule Lake. The Modoc leaders were hanged for "murder in violation of the laws of war" by the Army. Kintpuash was the only Native American leader ever to be charged with war crimes, and he was executed by the Army, along with several followers, for their ambush killings of General Edward Canby and Reverend Eleazar Thomas at a peace commission meeting. From 1872 to 1873, their small force made use of the lava beds, holding off more numerous United States Army forces for months in the Modoc War. He led a band from the Klamath Reservation to return to their lands in California, where they resisted return.
Kintpuash's name in the Modoc language meant 'Strikes the water brashly.' 1837 – October 3, 1873), was a chief of the Modoc tribe of California and Oregon. Kintpuash, also known as Kientpaush, Kientpoos, and Captain Jack (c.
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