(Plaikni Kóke - "River Uphill") rivers. They subsisted primarily on fish and gathered roots and seeds. While there was knowledge of their immediate neighbors, apparently the Klamath were unaware of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. Albert Gatschet has described this position as leaving the Klamath living in a "protracted isolation" from outside cultures.

North of their tribal territory lived the Molala (Kuikni maklaks),