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The Plains Indian Wars directly affected the region during westward expansion. By the end of the Nineteenth Century, Colorado became a focal point of labor violence and the Coal Wars , with instances of large-scale armed conflict between workers, private detectives, and state soldiers and police stretching into the 1920s.
The Colorado War was an Indian War fought in 1864 and 1865 between the Southern Cheyenne, Arapaho, and allied Brulé and Oglala Lakota (or Sioux) peoples versus the U.S. Army, Colorado militia, and white settlers in Colorado Territory and adjacent regions.
The Indian army numbered about 1,000 warriors. They decided that their target would be Julesburg, Colorado, located along the South Platte River. [1] Julesburg was a prominent way station on the Overland Trail. It consisted of a stagecoach station, stables, an express and telegraph office, a warehouse, and a large store that catered to ...
The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry [5] under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a ...
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America. These conflicts occurred from the time of the ...
Meeker Massacre, or Meeker Incident, White River War, Ute War, or the Ute Campaign [1]), took place on September 29, 1879 in Colorado.Members of a band of Ute Indians (Native Americans) attacked the Indian agency on their reservation, killing the Indian agent Nathan Meeker and his 10 male employees and taking five women and children as hostages.
Part of the Sioux Wars United States: Dakota Sioux: Goshute War (1863) Colorado War (1864–65) Part of the Sioux Wars United States: Cheyenne Arapaho: Military and congressional hearings against John Chivington; Snake War (1864–68) United States: Snake Indians: Hualapai War (1865–70) Part of the Yavapai Wars United States: Hualapai Yavapai ...
In the gunfight that ensued, cowboys killed six Mountain Ute Indians. It was the last major confrontation between Ute Indians and white settlers in Colorado. [4] Ute War (1887) Bluff War (1914–1915) Bluff Skirmish (1921) Posey War (1923)