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Remembering the Modoc War

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r emembe ring t h e

Modoc War

Redemptive Violence and the Making of

American Innocence

Boyd Cothran

The University of North Carolina Press / Chapel Hill

First Peoples

New Directions in Indigenous Studies

publication of this book was made possible, in part, by a

grant from the andrew w. mellon foundation.

Manufactured in the United States of America

Set in Miller types by codeMantra

The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability

of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on

Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member

of the Green Press Initiative since 2003.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cothran, Boyd.

Remembering the Modoc War : redemptive violence and the making of American

innocence / Boyd Cothran. — 1st edition.

pages cm. — (First peoples: new directions in indigenous studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

isbn

978-1-4696-1860-9 (cloth : alk. paper) —

isbn

978-1-4696-1861-6 (ebook)

1. Modoc Indians—Wars, 1873. I. Title.

e83.87.c67

2014

979.4004'974122—dc23 2014009209

18 17 16 15 14 5 4 3 2 1

Part of this book has been reprinted in revised form from “Exchanging Gifts

with the Dead: Lava Beds National Monument and Narratives of the Modoc War,”

International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies

4, no. 1 (2011): 30–40.