And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
A Modoc woman, and a full cousin to Captain Jack. Her fidelity and her heroism in the Lava Beds, in 1873, won for her a place in history which can never be disputed. After warning the Commission of the impending danger, unavailingly, she went to the ill-fated Council as interpreter; and when the attack was made, she sprang to her feet, and by almost superhuman efforts saved my life.
A. B. Meacham,
Chairman of the Modoc Peace Commission to the Modoc Indians.
Hey CW, if you get a chance, you might enjoy a related history location (if you haven’t already visited). Captain Jack and about 150 Modoc tribesmen left the reservation and fled to Tule Lake. The area includes Lava Beds National Monument, filled with hundreds of lava-tube caves, that Capt Jack and his men knew completely. They held off hundreds of US soldiers for several months.
If you go to Lava Beds, take flashlights and a coat (even on a hot day!) because the caves are cold. Exploring the caves is a blast.
WI-NE-MA.
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A Modoc woman, and a full cousin to Captain Jack. Her fidelity and her heroism in the Lava Beds, in 1873, won for her a place in history which can never be disputed. After warning the Commission of the impending danger, unavailingly, she went to the ill-fated Council as interpreter; and when the attack was made, she sprang to her feet, and by almost superhuman efforts saved my life.
A. B. Meacham,
Chairman of the Modoc Peace Commission to the Modoc Indians.
Thank you.
DeleteRead "Burnt Out Fires" by Richard Dillon. Winema was an amazing woman...and Meacham was half scalped that day!
ReplyDeleteHey CW, if you get a chance, you might enjoy a related history location (if you haven’t already visited). Captain Jack and about 150 Modoc tribesmen left the reservation and fled to Tule Lake. The area includes Lava Beds National Monument, filled with hundreds of lava-tube caves, that Capt Jack and his men knew completely. They held off hundreds of US soldiers for several months.
ReplyDeleteIf you go to Lava Beds, take flashlights and a coat (even on a hot day!) because the caves are cold. Exploring the caves is a blast.
+1. Tulelake High School, class of '71.
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