Editing Modoc people (section)

==Early population==
{{Further|Population of Native California}}
Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. [[James Mooney]] put the aboriginal population of the Modoc at 400.<ref>{{cite book | last = Mooney | first = James | title = The Aboriginal Population of America North of Mexico | publisher = Smithsonian Institution | year = 1928 | series = Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections | location = Washington, D.C. | volume=80 | issue=7 | oclc = 1729762 |page=18}}</ref> [[Alfred L. Kroeber]] estimated the Modoc population within California as 500 at the year 1770.<ref>Kroeber, p. 883</ref> University of Oregon anthropologist Theodore Stern suggested that there had been a total of about 500 Modoc.<ref name="Stern, pp. 446–456">Stern, pp. 446–456</ref> In 1846, the  population may have included "perhaps 600 warriors (an overestimate, probably)".<ref name="Thrapp, p. 1276">Thrapp, p. 1276</ref>