Young chief of the Modoc tribe who cooperated with the U.S. government until some of his men became involved in a violent conflict with U.S. soldiers in the early 1870s. Forced to choose between surrendering his own men and protecting them (thereby risking war with the U.S.), Kintpuash chose to fight against the U.S.—partly out of loyalty and partly because he feared that his own followers would rebel. He killed Colonel Edward R. S. Canby, and was afterwards executed himself. He was rumored to have said, “You white people conquered me not; my own men did.”
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No lawyer represented the Modocs, and although they were given the right to cross-examine witnesses, most of them understood very little English, and all spoke it poorly. While the trial was in progress soldiers were constructing a gallows outside the prisoners' stockade, so there was no doubt as to what the verdict would be.
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No lawyer represented the Modocs, and although they were given the right to cross-examine witnesses, most of them understood very little English, and all spoke it poorly. While the trial was in progress soldiers were constructing a gallows outside the prisoners' stockade, so there was no doubt as to what the verdict would be.
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