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1810s–1870s Minneconjou Teton Lakota: Chief of Minneconjou teton lakota Indians, signed the treaty of fort Laramie in 1868. Father of Touch the Clouds and Spotted Elk, uncle to Crazy Horse: Captain Jack: c. 1837–1873 1860s–1870s Modoc: Mangas Coloradas: c. 1793–1863 1820s–1850s Apache: Cochise: c. 1805–1874 1860s–1870s Apache ...
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 ...
In 1882, the U.S. Army sent Brigadier General George R. Crook (1839-1890) to take command of Indian operations in Arizona Territory. [8] Crook was an experienced Indian fighter who had long since learned that regular soldiers were almost useless against the Apaches and had based his entire strategy on employing "Indians to fight other Indians ...
Oct 5, 1870: Company M, 6th U.S. Cavalry: Gallantry during the pursuit and fight with Indians. Edgar R. Aston: Army: Private: San Carlos, Arizona Territory: May 30, 1868: Company L, 8th U.S. Cavalry: With two other men, voluntarily scouted hostile terrain to find a wagon passage and held off an Apache attack —
(1860) United States: Paiute Shoshone Bannock: Yavapai Wars (1861–75) United States: Yavapai Apache Yuma Mohave: Owens Valley Indian War (1862–67) United States: Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Kawaiisu Tübatulabal: Dakota War of 1862 (1862) Part of the Sioux Wars United States: Dakota Sioux: Goshute War (1863) Colorado War (1864–65) Part ...
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Indian affairs in early 1870s Arizona lurched back and forth between peace and war. Each new round of hostilities brought increasing conflict between the settlers and the soldiers. The report of the Indian Peace Commission , in 1867, led to the creation of the Board of Indian Commissioners two years later.
The most renowned of all the Plains Indians as warriors were the Comanche whom The Economist noted in 2010: "They could loose a flock of arrows while hanging off the side of a galloping horse, using the animal as protection against return fire. The sight amazed and terrified their white (and Indian) adversaries."