Oct. 18—MIAMI, Okla. — Bill G. Follis, the longest-serving chief of the Modoc Nation, died Friday at Mercy Hospital in Joplin at age 89, his family said. Follis, a lifelong Miami resident, began his ...

Donald Dexter grew up under the watchful gaze of Kaitchkona Winema, his seventh generation ancestor. Her portrait hung in Dexter’s grandparents’ home on the Klamath Indian Reservation, where he was ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of the multi-part series “Exiled to Indian Country” about the exile of Native Americans. The Modoc are few in numbers but not in might.

Bill Follis laid out three life principles for his grandson. First, be fiscally responsible. Second, be persistent. “The third thing was, you have to learn when to take a risk,” Blake Follis said.

With song and prayer, soil and prairie grass, Native American author Cheewa James recently honored the memory of her long-lost great-great uncle. Frank Modoc left his Oklahoma reservation for a Quaker ...

It was the only major Native American war fought in California and it gripped the nation’s attention almost 150 years ago as a band of warriors held off a much larger force of the U.S. Army in a harsh ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The struggle for local Native American tribes of California to hold on to their lands came to a head at Lava Beds National Monument, in 1873.