The Klamath tribes, which also include the the Modocs and the Yahooskin, didn’t encounter a white person until 1826, when a fur trapper wandered into their territory. Just 28 years later, in 1864, the tribes agreed to cede 23 million acres of their land in exchange for a reservation. In 1954, an act of Congress ended federal recognition of the Klamath tribes, which meant that they lost their reservation and the accompanying human services. Their rights as a federally recognized tribe were not restored until 1986. This portrait of a Klamath woman was taken in 1923, by Edward Curtis, and is now in the Library of Congress.
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