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Klamath County History Resources

Native Peoples

  • The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon (1890), Albert Samuel Gatschet. This two volume government report contains the first ethnographic study of the Klamath peoples as well as large sections on the Klamath language.  
  • Klamath Ethnography (1930), Leslie Spier. This ethnography focuses on Klamath social life, shamanism, economics and material culture.  
  • The Klamath Tribe: A People and Their Reservation (1965), Theodore Stern. A history of the Klamath Tribes, including an extensive discussion of the tribal termination in the 1950s.  
  • Charles Worden Collection (1859-1990). Collection includes a Klamath Indian Allotment Census for the Klamath Tribes and a Register of Persons living in the Yainax Agency area. The collection contains the township and range system working grids and plat maps of the Klamath Indian Allotment from 1894 – 1896 and plat surveys dated in the mid-1860s. The Census provides the English name adopted by the Native American signing for a land allotment and family relationships. Multiple agents made township and range identifications. This donation includes working papers, notebooks, reports and an abstract of title for several lots in Linkville (est.1867, named Klamath Falls in 1893).