Group items tagged

Indigenous language American Indian culture American Indian arts Native American Facts For Kids was written for young people learning about the Modoc tribe for school or home-schooling reports. We encourage students and teachers to visit our mainModoc website for in-depth information about the tribe, but here are our answers to the questions we are most often asked by children, with Modoc pictures and links we believe are suitable for all ages.

This article contains interesting facts, pictures and information about the life of the Modoc Native American Indian Tribe.

The Modoc used stone mortars and pestles for processing plant and animal foods. "Most large mortars were made of vesicular lava but many small one ... were of a much lighter and more porous volcanic material" (Howe 52). The Modoc also utilized a distinctive two-horned milling stone (muller) to hull wokas seeds (Kroeber 324).

"This conflict resulted from forces common to all Indian wars: the encroachment of whites upon traditional Indian land until the aboriginal way of life was threatened with extinction."

Below are the primary materials & dyes, but by no means all used in Northern Californian basketry. Warp Materials Hazel and Willow The primary materials used for the warp of the firm twined Northern California baskets are Hazel or Willow. Hazel was preferred as it was stronger and more bug resistant than willow.