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[[Image:Edward S. Curtis Collection People 086.jpg|thumb|200px|Elderly Klamath woman by Edward S. Curtis, 1924]]
[[Image:klamath_man.jpg|thumb|right|A Klamath man; a full image is available [http://memory.loc.gov/award/iencurt/ct13/ct13067v.jpg here]]]
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The '''Klamath''' are a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe of the Plateau culture area in [[Southern Oregon]].
==History==
===Pre-contact===
Prior to the arrival of European explorers, the Klamath people lived in the area around the [[Upper Klamath Lake]] and the [[Klamath River|Klamath]], [[Williamson River (Oregon)|Williamson]], and [[Sprague River|Sprague]] rivers. They subsisted primarily on fish and gathered roots and seeds.
The Klamath were known to raid neighboring tribes (such as the [[Achomawi]] on the [[Pit River]]), and occasionally to take prisoners as slaves. [[Kit Carson]] admired the arrows of the Klamath, and it is reported that they could shoot those arrows through a horse. They traded with the [[Chinookan]] people at [[The Dalles, Oregon|The Dalles]].
===Contact===
In 1826 [[Peter Skene Ogden]], an explorer for the [[Hudson's Bay Company]], first encountered the Klamath people, and he was trading with them by 1829.
===Treaty with the United States===
The [[United States]], the Klamaths, [[Modoc]]s, and [[Yahooskin]] band of Snake tribes signed a treaty in 1864, establishing the [[Klamath Reservation]], to the northeast of Upper Klamath Lake. The treaty had the tribes cede the land in the [[Klamath Basin]], bounded on the north by the 44th parallel, to the United States. In return, the United States was to make a lump sum payment of $35,000, and annual payments totalling $80,000 over 15 years, as well as providing infrastructure and staff for the reservation. The treaty provided that, if the Indians drank or stored intoxicating liquor on the reservation, the payments could be withheld and that the United States could locate additional tribes on the reservation in the future. The tribes requested [[Lindsay Applegate]] as the agent to represent the United States to them. The Indian agent estimated the total population of the three tribes at about 2,000 when the treaty was signed.
===Post-treaty history===
{{main|Klamath Tribes}}
The Klamath, along with the Modoc and Yahooskin, form the Klamath Tribes confederation, with their tribal government based in [[Chiloquin, Oregon]].
Some Klamaths live on the [[Quartz Valley Indian Community]] in [[Siskiyou County, California]].
==Culture==
===Language===
{{main|Klamath-Modoc language}}
The Klamath spoke one dialect of the Klamath–Modoc language, the other being spoken by the [[Modoc]] people, who lived south of the Klamath. Once thought to be a language isolate, Klamath–Modoc is now considered a member of the [[Plateau Penutian]] language family.
Both the Klamath and the Modoc called themselves ''maqlaqs'', meaning "people." When they wanted to distinguish between themselves, the Klamath were called ''?ewksiknii'', "people of the [Klamath] Lake," and the Modoc were called ''moowatdal'knii'', "people of the south."
==Classifications==
The Klamath people are grouped with the [[Plateau Indians]]—the peoples who originally lived on the [[Columbia River Plateau]]. They were most closely linked with the Modoc people.
==See also==
*[[Indian Reorganization Act]]
==References==
* ''Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1865: Reports of Agents in Oregon'' Washington: United States Office of Indian Affairs, 1865.
* Hale, Horation. "The Klamath Nation: the country and the people". ''Science''. vol. 19, no. 465, 1892.
* Hodge, Frederick Webb. ''Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico''. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907.
* Mithun, Marianne. (1999). ''The languages of Native North America''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
* Waldman, Carl. ''Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes''. New York: Checkmark, 1999. ISBN 0-8160-3964-X
==External links==
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*[http://www.klamathtribes.org Klamath Reservation General Council]
*[http://soda.sou.edu Southern Oregon Digital Archives]
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