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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 ...
According to historian Jeffrey Ostler, "Any discussion of genocide must, of course, eventually consider the so-called Indian Wars, the term commonly used for U.S. Army campaigns to subjugate Indian nations of the American West beginning in the 1860s. In an older historiography, key events in this history were narrated as battles.
French and Iroquois Wars (mid-17th century) — in eastern North America between Indian nations of the Iroquois Confederation, supported by the Dutch colonists of New Netherland, and the largely Algonquian-speaking tribes of the Great Lakes region, allied with French colonists; King Philip's War (1675–1676) — in present-day southern New England
United States Army Indian Scouts and trackers had served the US government since the Civil War. During the Indian Wars, the Pawnee people, the Crow people and the Tonkawa people allied with the American cavalry against their old rivals the Apache and Sioux. [32] Sgt. I-See-O of the Kiowa people was still in active service during the World War I ...
The Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), also known by other names, was an armed conflict for control of the Northwest Territory fought between the United States and a united group of Native American nations known today as the Northwestern Confederacy. The United States Army considers it the first of the American Indian Wars. [1]
Contemporary illustration of the 1868 Washita massacre by the 7th Cavalry against Black Kettle's band of Cheyenne, during the American Indian Wars.Violence and conflict with colonists were also important causes of the decline of certain Indigenous American populations since the 16th century.
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