Tribal Relations
A word used to describe the subdivisions of the Klamath/Modoc tribes
What are Tribelets
In tribal birth practices, this object is used to cut the umbilical cord, and the stump is tied with the mother's hair to prevent the baby from crying continuously.
What is an obsidian knife?
Contrary to instinct, this title was more important than Chief before contact
Shaman
The Klamath were historically closely bonded with this tribe
Modoc
Unlike tribes like the Yurok or Hupa, marriage payments among the Klamath are seen as this, which reflects a family’s respectability, not a transaction or bride purchase.
What is a social obligation?
A term for Chief or leader
LaGi
Modern associations aside, this product was rare, expensive and only ever found through trade for the Modoc as it was unattainable in their part of the West
Buffalo skin
In the case of a wife leaving her husband due to domestic friction, this is what a man must do to bring her back if he desires her to return.
What is paying again or paying the bride price?
The Klamath & Modoc tribelets' feuds, especially those involving warfare with outsiders, often result in this form of retaliation.
What is the enslavement of women and children?
This is a tribe that both Klamath and Modoc together often joined against
Pit River People
This is the time by which a child is typically given their first name.
What is early infancy or by the time the child talks?
The Klamath/Modoc raids for slaves became a regular occurrence, particularly after the introduction of this animal, which increased the speed and scale of their raids.
What is the horse?
This tribe used poison arrows in fighting
Modoc
Tribal names may sometimes be changed in this stage of life, although there is no set occasion for it.
What is later life?
This was the Klamath berdache shaman who lived as a woman and was married twice, first to a Molala man and then to a Klamath man.
Who is White Sindey?