Klamath, Modoc and the Yahooskin band of Snake Indians

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Klamath Indian Reservation, Oregon
Surname/tag: Chocktoot, Jim, Dick, Butler, Cholah, Chinchallo, Hook

A catalog of Klamath Indian Reservation from 1907 to 1 January 1937.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Historic Northern Paiute bands 1.2 U.S., Indian Census Rolls 1.3 Notable Paiute & Klamath 2 Resources 3 Sources

History

Snake Indians is a collective name given to the Northern Paiute, Bannock, and Shoshone Native American tribes.

• Northern Paiute People are a Numic tribe that has traditionally lived in the Great Basin region of the United States in what is now eastern California, western Nevada, and southeast Oregon. Northern Paiute
• Bannock tribe were originally Northern Paiute but are more culturally affiliated with the Northern Shoshone. They are in the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People. Their traditional lands include northern Nevada, southeastern Oregon, southern Idaho, and western Wyoming. Bannock
• Shoshone are the largest group of Snake. Shoshone

Historic Northern Paiute bands

The Klamath are part of the Goyatöka (Klamath-Paiute: "Crayfish Eaters", from Goy’a "Crayfish" (Klamath) and Töka "Eater" (Paiute)),[16] better known under their Klamath name as Yahuskin (Yahooskin) (either Yahu-kni - "People of far off down below"[a] or Y'ayn'a-kni - "Mountain People"), often called Snake Indians, also known as Upper Sprague River Snakes or even Upper Sprague River Klamath, they occupied about 5,000 square miles of Oregon High Desert along the shores of Goose, Silver, Harney, and Warner Lakes and along the Sprague River in the area now comprising Lake and Harney counties of Oregon, and hunted in the Klamath Basin, together with their close associates Hunipuitöka (Walpapi) they were counted as the most powerful and warlike of the Paiute bands in Oregon. The Klamath lived west, the Modoc south, the Hunipuitöka (Walpapi) Paiute north, the Wadadökadö and Kidütökadö Paiute bands east. They are federally recognized as part of the Klamath Tribes.

The six tribes of the Klamaths were bound together by ties of loyalty and Family, they lived along the Klamath Marsh, on the banks of Agency Lake, near the mouth of the Lower Williamson River, on Pelican Bay, beside the Link River, and in the uplands of the Sprague River Valley. The Modoc’s lands included the Lower Lost River, around Clear Lake, and the territory that extended south as far as the mountains beyond Goose Lake. The Yahooskin Bands occupied the area east of the Yamsay Mountain, south of Lakeview, and north of Fort Rock

With no written language, art was the primary form of expression among Native Americans. For the Klamath Indians, basket weaving was one of those arts that served both a utilitarian and a cultural purpose.^[1]

U.S., Indian Census Rolls

The census rolls contain 641 images of annual census records. The first year of the census, 1907, named 1,051 Klamath, Modoc, Paiute, and Pitt River Native-Americans.

There are six columns:

1: Number

2: Indian Name - no Indian names were recorded

3: English Name

4: Sex, M, F,

5: Relation - Widow, Head, Mother, son, daughter

6: Age

The 641-image filmstrip:

Image 1: 1907

Image 33: 1908

Image 64 1909

Image 95 1910

Image 134 1911

Image 179 1912

Image 224 1913

Image 269 1914

Image 314 1915

Image 360 1916

Image 407 1917

Image 454 1918

Image 502 1919 Added Birth year and % Native-American

Image 574 1920

2nd Set:

Image 1 1921

Image 72 1922

Image 141 1923

Image 214 1924

Image 286 1925

Image 365 1926

Image 440 1927

Image 515 1928

Image 589 1929

Notable Paiute & Klamath

• Thocmetony (Paiute) Winnemucca (abt.1844-1891)

Resources

• U.S., Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1904
• Snake Indians
• Northern Paiute people
• Klamath Tribes History
• Klamath Tribes
• Klamath Casino
• Klamath People
• Klamath Language
• Indian Agents

Sources

1. ↑ Klamath Art