Wi-ne-ma, the Author's mother present day. Riddle's story may derive a certain opportuneness from the fact of its appearance on the forty-first anniversary of a racial struggle written in red upon the face of California history, and upon that of Oregon as well. Here and there a word has been changed where the meaning has seemed obscure, and an occasional date has been rectified, but with these exceptions, there has been no attempt either to correct the form or to embellish the language. It may be said in conclusion, that it has been thought advisable to have the story practically as it came from the author's pen. Here we have the point of view of the Indian, but it is a point of view that is consonant with accuracy and with impartiality. Most of them were written from hearsay and naturally from the point of view of the white man. There have been other histories of the Modoc War and of some of these the author gives his opinion an unflattering one. He is himself a Modoc Indian, the son of the chief figure in that struggle, and he was an eye witness of most of the events that he describes. Riddle, the author of the following history of the Modoc War, has included in his text all that need be said by way of foreword and introduction. Written the only Indian history of the Modoc War. A prophecy that has now been fulfilled by the same Jeff C. People." This statement was taken from page 71 of the book entitled "Wine-ma and Her People," by A. Riddle, will be heard from sometime in the future in behalf of his mother's "This boy Char-ka, meaning in English The Handsome Boy, Jeff C. I use noįine language in my writing, for I lack education. I have one drawback : I have no education, but I have tried to write as plain as I could. In my work I aim to give both sides of the troubles of the Of 1872 and '73, as I do not remember meeting him at that Not anywhere near the Lava Beds at the time of the Modoc war Jack really had when he commencedįighting. According to what he says, he captured and killed more Years on the Plains," where he wrote about the Modoc warriors. So disgusting, I must say that the authors of some of the booksĬertainly were never in the neighborhood of the Lava Beds. In writing this little book I want to say, I did what I
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