A Haunted Place: The Land Where a People Lost Their Culture

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An un-broken link to the article on the vandalism of these petroglyphs:

https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/petroglyphs-at-lava-b...

Rampaging barbarians from overseas. What a catastrophe.

It was barbarians vs. barbarians. The Modoc were slave traders.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclo...

Except the Modoc were not the only massacred tribe/nation. Sure it's appalling that some people were doing slave trade but how does that justify genocide of hundreds of ethnicities/communities?

and it was only a matter of time before they were captured

during a peace parley, the Modocs shot and killed General E.R.S. Canby

This stood out to me. Given the attitudes and norms of the time I'm surprised shooting the general under a flag of truce didn't result in the army massacring the entire group after capturing them. There might be an interesting story or person behind that which we'll never know.

There's a town in Oregon, outside of Portland, named after the general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canby,_Oregon

My family and I visited those same two places on the way back home to Bend from San Francisco. Well worth it if you're in the area.

The description of the defended area reminds me of Helm's Deep (The Two Towers, by JRR Tolkien).

> “The cultural identity of an entire people was lost here…so settlers could graze a few cows”

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