#kintpuash

When the US broke their treaty with the Modocs in 1873, the tribe retreated into the lava beds south of Tule Lake. Badly outnumbered, the Modocs, led by Kintpuash, aka "Captain Jack," managed to hold off the soldiers for months.

Let me introduce you to #Kintpuash, known to white settlers as “#CaptainJack", was a young #Modoc #Chief caught up in the #ModocWar and hanged (like #Jesus…just Google “hanged on a tree”…B4 #BigBrother changes it🙊🙉🙈) on October 3, 1873 for the death of #CivilWar #hero 🤠🤛🏾 General Edward Canby.  Capt Jack is the “star” of the controversial book by UCLA assistant professor of hiStory 🤔, #BenjaminMadley, entitled, ”An American Genocide: The #UnitedStates and the California #Indian #Catastrophe, 1846-1873," published in May by #Yale University #Press, takes the position the atrocities of #California in particular were CALCULATED and SUPPORTED by the #STATE [#TAX] and #FEDERAL [TAX] #GOVERNMENT 🐃💩 “SYSTEM”ATICALLY😳🤔 [Taxation with NO Representation...ONLY Death & Destruction]. In an interview, Madley stated: ”To boil it down, the argument is that California legislators, with the support of the #FederalGovernment, sponsored a STATE KILLING MACHINE.” ✊🏾😢 #HistoREAL #InREALTime…well…way #OverTime pero #MissMeWitDaPapalBull 💩 We're Still Here & #KnockItOff wit da #SilverScreen #Photos #WeCanSeeHow Black he REALLY WAS 🙋🏿‍♂️🤔😳🤣🌚🤡🤛🏾🤣Chains on their ankles like animals, but they're still leaned back posing like their descendants who are LOCKED in the "SYSTEM" today. #WECOMINGFOROURCHECK YaDig! (at California)

today in historical figures that look like famous people: this Native American chief, Kintpuash, who looks like Mads Mikkelsen

Over the next several months, various groups of Modoc continued to fight the army, while others began to surrender. Captain Jack successfully avoided the Army until a number of Modoc agreed to hunt him down. Captain Jack surrendered, ceremonially laying down his rifle. He was taken to Fort Klamath, Hanged on October 3, 1873

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   Meacham replied that the Modocs could not stay in peace in the Lava Beds unless they gave up the men who committed the killings on Lost River. They would be treated fairly, he promised, in a court of law.     ”Who will try them?” Jack asked. "White men or Indians?"     "White men, of course," Meacham admitted.    "Then will you give up the men who killed the Indian women and children on Lost River, to be tried by the Modocs?"    Meacham shook his head. "The Modoc law is dead; the white man's law rules the country now; only one law lives at a time."    "Will you try the men who fired on my people?" Jack continued. "By your own law?"    Meacham knew and Captain Jack knew that this could not be done. "The white man's law rules the country," the commissioner repeated. "The Indian law is dead."     "The white man's laws are good for the white men," Jack said, "but they are made so as to leave the Indian out. No, my friend, I cannot give up the young men to be hung. I know they did wrong--their blood was bad...They did not begin; the white man began first....No, I cannot give up my young men; take away the soldiers, and all the trouble will stop."     "The soldiers cannot be taken away," Meacham replied, "while you stay in the Lava Beds".    Grasping Meacham's arm, Jack asked imploringly: "Tell me, my friend, what am I to do? I do not want to fight."    "The only way to peace now is to come out of the rocks," Meacham told him bluntly. "No peace can be made while you stay in the Lava Beds."    "You ask me to come out and put myself in your power," Jack cried. "I cannot do it. I am afraid--no, I am not afraid, but my people are....I am the voice of my people....I am a Modoc. I am not afraid to die. I can show him [General Canby] how a Modoc can die."