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Ely Parker was a Union Civil War General who wrote the terms of surrender between the United States and the Confederate States of America. [98] 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]
Kieft's War (1643–45) New Netherland: Munsee: Peach War (1655) New Netherland: Munsee: Esopus Wars (1659–63) Dutch settlers Iroquois Confederacy: Esopus tribe of Lenape Indians: Chowanoc War (1675–77) Province of Carolina: Chowanoc: King Philip's War (1675–78) New England Confederation Mohegan Pequot: Wampanoag Nipmuck Podunk ...
New England colonial leaders sought a way allowing the individual colonies to coordinate a collective defense of New England. The New England leaders also felt that they were unique among the American colonies, and they hoped to band together to preserve their Puritan values. The treaty calls on the New England colonies to act as a nation ...
King William's War (1688–1697) between England and France, and their Indian allies, in New France, New England, and the Province of New York; Tuscarora War (1711–15) in the Province of North Carolina; Yamasee War (1715–17) in the Province of South Carolina; Dummer's War (1722–25) in northern New England and French Acadia (New Brunswick ...
A majority of Native Americans fought for the Confederacy, in part to protect slavery in Indian Territory, as well as a promise by the Confederate government that it would recognize an independent Native American country following the war's conclusion. [1] A large number of Native Americans fought on the side of the Union as well, hoping their ...
New English Canaan's title page. In 1637, Morton published his three-volume New English Canaan, a denunciation of Puritan government in the colonies and their policy of building forts to guard themselves against Indian attack. He described the Indians as a far nobler culture and a new Canaan under attack from the "New Israel" of the Puritans. [5]
At this time the Naumkeag were under the leadership of Nanepashemet. [1] At the time of the Great Migration to New England in the early 17th century, the Naumkeag population was already greatly depleted from disease and war. They engaged in a war with the Tarrantine (modern-day Mi'kmaq) people beginning in 1615. [8]
During the American Civil War, most of what is now the U.S. state of Oklahoma was designated as the Indian Territory.It served as an unorganized region that had been set aside specifically for Native American tribes and was occupied mostly by tribes which had been removed from their ancestral lands in the Southeastern United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.