Editing Modoc War (section)

==After the war==
General Davis prepared to execute Captain Jack and his leaders, but the [[United States Department of War|War Department]] ordered the Modoc to be held for trial. The Army took Captain Jack and his band as [[prisoner of war|prisoners of war]] to Fort Klamath, where they arrived July 4.

Captain Jack, Schonchin John, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Brancho (Barncho) and Slolux were tried by a military court for the murders of Canby and Thomas, and attacks on Meacham and others. The six Modoc were convicted, and sentenced to death on July 8.

On September 10, President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] approved the death sentence for Captain Jack, Schonchin John, Black Jim and Boston Charley; Brancho and Slolux were committed to life imprisonment on [[Alcatraz]]. Grant ordered that the remainder of Captain Jack's band be held as prisoners of war.

On October 3, 1873, Captain Jack and his three lead warriors were hanged at Fort Klamath. The remainder of the band of Modoc Indians, consisting of 39 men, 64 women, and 60 children, as prisoners of war were sent to the [[Quapaw Agency]] in [[Indian Territory]] ([[Oklahoma]]). In 1909, after Oklahoma had become a state, members of the [[Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma]] were offered the chance to return to the Klamath Reservation. Twenty-nine people returned to Oregon; the Modoc of Oregon and their descendants became part of the [[Klamath Tribes]] Confederation.

The historian Robert Utley believes that the Modoc War and the [[Great Sioux War]] a few years later undermined public confidence in President Grant's peace policy.<ref>Robert Marshall Utley, ''Frontier regulars: the United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891'' (1984) [https://books.google.com/books?id=ojYrdQ-IBaMC&dq=modoc+ulysses+canby&pg=PA206 p. 206 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428212430/https://books.google.com/books?id=ojYrdQ-IBaMC&pg=PA206&dq=modoc+ulysses+canby&lr=&as_brr=0&cd=4 |date=2016-04-28 }}</ref> There was renewed public sentiment to use force against the American Indians to suppress them.