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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 ...
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.
Wars of the Indigenous Peoples of North America refers to conflicts between the Indigenous peoples of North America and Western powers in territory now part of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. At various times Indigenous peoples fought against forces from the Russian , Spanish , French and British colonial empires, and with residents of ...
They are descendants of those who traveled north after the Revolutionary War. [1] Descendants of those who later traveled west with the Delaware are part of the federally recognized Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. [10] The Nanticoke Indian Association of Millsboro has been a state-recognized tribe in Delaware since 1922. [11]
As the American Civil War drained available troops, attacks on the Great Plains worsened, leading in the later part of 1863 to cries from settlers for protection. Carleton wanted to put an end to the raids, or at least to send a sharp signal to the Indians that the Civil War had not left the United States unable to protect its people.
Thousands of Native Americans joined the military during World War I, and had a massive impact on the war, especially in forms of communication across enemy lines and territory. [15] Using Native Americans to help send messages first began when leaders in the American army came upon the knowledge of how quickly and complicated Natives would ...
Parker was one of two Native Americans to reach the rank of brigadier general during the Civil War. Many Native Americans served in the military during the Civil War, on both sides. [99] By fighting with the whites, Native Americans hoped to gain favor with the prevailing government by supporting the war effort. [99] [100]
Following the fall of Fort William Henry during the French and Indian War, Indians allied with the French killed between 70 and 180 British and colonial prisoners. 70–180 (British) [116] 1757: September 19: Hochstetler massacre: Pennsylvania: Indians set fire to the Hochstetler homestead, killing 3 and capturing 3 others as they tried to ...