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(January 2008)| Prior to the arrival of European explorers, the
Klamath people lived in the area around the Upper Klamath Lake
and the Klamath, Williamson, and Sprague rivers. They subsisted
primarily on fish and gathered roots and seeds. In 1826, Peter
Skene Ogden, an explorer for the Hudson's Bay Company, first
encountered the Klamath people, and he was trading with them by
1829. The United States frontiersman Kit Carson admired their
arrows, which were reported to be able to shoot through a horse.
Treaty with the United States  The Klamaths, Modocs, and
Yahooskin band of Snake tribes signed a treaty with the United
States in 1864, establishing the Klamath Reservation to the
northeast of Upper Klamath Lake. The treaty required the tribes
to cede the land in the Klamath Basin, bounded on the north by
the 44th parallel, to the United States. In return, the United
States was to make a lump sum payment of $35,000, and annual
payments totalling $80,000