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The American Indian Wars were numerous armed conflicts fought by governments and colonists of European descent, and later by the United States federal government and American settlers, against various indigenous peoples within the territory that is now the United States.
This was a continuation of the hostilities by Native American tribes allied with the French in the French and Indian War that had begun with the Penn's Creek massacre, above. 47 either killed or captured (Scotch and Irish settlers) in the Great Cove settlement; at least 10 more in Little Cove and the Conolloway Creeks [113] 1755: November 24
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 ...
The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American civilization archaeologists date from approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, varying regionally. [20] It was composed of a series of urban settlements and satellite villages (suburbs) linked together by a loose trading network, [ 21 ] the largest city being Cahokia , believed to be a ...
The painting shows a Native American boy (in a blue coat) and woman (in a red dress) in European clothing. During the American Revolutionary War, the newly proclaimed United States competed with the British for the allegiance of Native American nations east of the Mississippi River. Most Native Americans who joined the struggle sided with the ...
The Coosa chiefdom was a powerful Native American paramount chiefdom in what are now Gordon and Murray counties in Georgia, in the United States. [1] It was inhabited from about 1400 until about 1600, and dominated several smaller chiefdoms. [ 2 ]
Extinct Native American tribes of North America [103] 207 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Samish: 2,000+ 1845 Edmund Clare Fitzhugh 208 Subarctic & Arctic District of Athabasca, Canada Etheneldeli 2,000 1875 Émile Petitot: 209 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Klallam: 2,000 1780 James Mooney: 210 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Chakchiuma: 2,000 1702
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has roughly 12,500 members. At this time there are lawsuits and counter lawsuits in the Cherokee Freedmen issue in the Cherokee Nation. With an estimated 284,247 members, per the 2010 census, the Cherokee Nation is the second largest Indian tribe behind the Navajo. Combined there are over 800,000 persons ...