Editing Klamath people (section)

==History==
===Pre-contact===
The Klamath people lived in the area around the [[Upper Klamath Lake]] (E-ukshi - “Lake”) and the [[Klamath River|Klamath]], [[Williamson River (Oregon)|Williamson]] (Kóke - “River”), Wood River (E-ukalksini Kóke), and [[Sprague River (Oregon)|Sprague]] (Plaikni Kóke - “River Uphill”) rivers.  They subsisted primarily on fish and gathered roots and seeds. While there was knowledge of their immediate neighbors, apparently the Klamath were unaware of the existence of the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Gatschet has described this position as leaving the Klamath living in a "protracted isolation" from outside cultures.{{sfn|Gatschet|1890|p=lvi}}

North of their tribal territory lived the [[Molala]] (''Kuikni maklaks''), in the northeast and east in the desert-like plains were various [[Northern Paiute]] bands (''Shá'ttumi'', collective term for Northern Paiute, Bannock and Northern Shoshone) - among them the ''Goyatöka Band'' ("Crayfish Eaters"), direct south their [[Modoc people|Modoc]] kin (''Mo'dokni maklaks'' - "Southern People, i.e. Tule Lake People") with whom they shared the [[Modoc Plateau]], in the southwest were living [[Shasta people]]s (''S[h]asti maklaks'') and the Klamath River further downstream the [[Karuk]] and [[Yurok]] (both: ''Skatchpalikni'' - "People along the [[Scott River]]"), in the west and northwest were the [[Latgawa|Latgawa ("Upland Takelma")]] (according to Spier: ''Walumskni'' - "Enemy"{{efn|but in Klamath-Modoc ″enemy″ is ''shish6kish'', and ″alien″ is ''wennikni'' or ''atikni''.}}) and [[Takelma|Takelma/Dagelma ("Lowland/River Takelma")]] (more likely both were called: ''Wálamsknitumi, Wálamskni maklaks'' - “Rogue River People”). Beyond the [[Cascade Range]] (''Yámakisham Yaina'' - “mountains of the Northerners”) in the [[Rogue River (Oregon)|Rogue River Valley]] (''Wálamsh'') lived the [[Rogue River Indians|"Rogue "River" Athabascan]] (''Wálamsknitumi, Wálamskni maklaks'' - “Rogue River People”) and further south along the Pit River (''Moatuashamkshini/Móatni Kóke'' - "River of the Southern Dwellers") lived the [[Achomawi]] and [[Atsugewi]] (both called: ''Móatuash maklaks'' - "Southern Dweller", or "Southern People").

The Klamath were known to raid neighboring tribes, such as the [[Achomawi]] on the [[Pit River]], and occasionally to take prisoners as slaves. They traded with the [[Wasco-Wishram]] at [[The Dalles, Oregon|The Dalles]]. However, scholars such as [[Alfred L. Kroeber]] and [[Leslie Spier]] consider these slaving raids by the Klamath to begin only with the acquisition of the horse.{{sfn|Kroeber|1925|pp=319-320}}{{sfn|Spier|1930|p=25}}

These natives made southern [[Oregon]] their home for long enough to witness the eruption of [[Mount Mazama]]. It was a legendary volcanic mountain who is the creator of [[Crater Lake]] (''giˑw''), now considered to be a beautiful natural formation.

===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.  The United States [[frontiersman]] [[Kit Carson]] admired their arrows, which were reported to be able to shoot through a house.

===Treaty with the United States===
The Klamaths, [[Modoc people|Modocs]], and the Yahooskin (Yahuskin) Band of [[Northern Paiute]] (in Paiute known as: Goyatöka - "Crayfish eaters"), which was erroneously called ''Upper Sprague River Snakes'' believed to be a Band of ''[[Snake Indians]]'', the collective name given to the Northern Paiute, Bannock, and Shoshone Native American tribes,{{sfn|Wheeler-Voegelin|1955|p=97}} signed a treaty with the [[United States]] in 1864, establishing the [[Klamath Reservation]] to the northeast of Upper Klamath Lake. This area was largely part of the traditional territory controlled by the ă′ukuckni Klamath band.{{sfn|Spier|1930|p=1}} The treaty required the tribes to cede the land in the [[Klamath Basin]], bounded on the north by the [[44th parallel north|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; the United States could also 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===
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Since termination of recognition of their tribal sovereignty in 1954 (with federal payments not disbursed until 1961), the Klamath and neighboring tribes have reorganized their government and revived tribal identity.  The Klamath, along with the Modoc and Yahooskin, have formed the federally recognized [[Klamath Tribes]] confederation.  Their tribal government is based in [[Chiloquin, Oregon]].

Some Klamath live on the [[Quartz Valley Indian Community]] in [[Siskiyou County, California]].