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Klamath

1 American  
[klam-uhth] / ˈklæm əθ /

noun

  • Klamaths,
    plural
  • Klamath
    plural
  1. a member of an American Indian people belonging to the Lutuamian group and located in southern Oregon.


Klamath 2 American  
[klam-uhth] / ˈklæm əθ /

noun

  1. a river flowing from SW Oregon through NW California into the Pacific. 250 miles (405 km) long.


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For several years, he said, his own adult son was the principal of an elementary school in Klamath, driving to and from home in Crescent City.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2025

The Butler fire, which was reported amid a lightning storm July 3, had burned roughly 8,156 acres in the Six Rivers and Klamath national forests and was completely uncontained as of Monday afternoon, Maznarich said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2025

It’s possible to see some of the area by boat, traveling from the Klamath River to the mouth of Blue Creek.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2025

In all, the tribe now owns an additional 73 square miles along the lower Klamath River, including much of the Blue Creek watershed.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2025

The irrigation waters, recollected from the fields they have served, are then pumped into Tule Lake and from there to Lower Klamath.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

At the north lived the Klamaths, Siskiyous, Shastas, and the savage Modocs, whose months of fighting in the lava beds caused the death of General Canby and many soldiers.

From Stories of California by Sexton, Ella M.

When the Klamaths saw him fall, they ran; but we lay, every man with his rifle cocked, until daylight, expecting another attack.

From Christopher Carson by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

The Klamaths did not like the introduction of the Modocs on their reservation, and it eventually led to the Modoc war.

From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.

About the time that we were thoroughly organized it was reported that the Pah-Utes and the Klamaths were all coming to join Captain Jack.

From Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West by Drannan, William F.

In the morning we found, by the tracks, that from fifteen to twenty of the Klamaths had attacked us.

From Christopher Carson by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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