The Collaborative International Dictionary
Modocs \Mo"docs\, n. pl.; sing. Modoc. (Ethnol.) A tribe of warlike Indians formerly inhabiting Northern California. They are nearly extinct.
Usage examples of "modocs".
The Modocs had been slave traders among the Indians long before the coming of the white man.
Them Modocs killed a trapper up the crick yestiddy, and burned a couple of farms!
Glancing around they saw five Modocs come out of the trees on their right rear, and fan out as they came down the meadow at a dead run, whooping shrilly.
The fight continued through another long, hot day, and then the Modocs, tiring of the game, pulled out and left them.
He was a brilliant Modoc leader, and the Modocs were put on the same reservation as their arch enemies, the Klamaths.
Cheyennes, Cherokees, Choctaws, Comanches, Chippewas, Modocs, Kiowas, Seminoles, Potts, Hopis.
Indeed many of the myths of Northern Californian tribes are so obviously the same as those of the Modocs and Klamath Indians that they have not been repeated.