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The Sioux Wars
Erupted in South Dakota, Minnesota and Wyoming were led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in a fight to keep their homelands
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Rogue River War
Fought in Oregon during which the Natives were attacked in an attempt to start a war that would enable unemployed miners to work. Survivors were forced on to reservations
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Third Seminole War
The third conflict between the United States and the Seminole Indians of Florida in the period before the American Civil War, that ultimately resulted in the opening of the Seminole’s desirable land for white exploitation and settlement.
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Ute Wars
The Ute nation rose episodically against the whites. Mormon settlers were relentlessly overtaking Ute lands and exhausting their resources and wildlife. Therefore, the utes went into battle with the whites to keep their own property.
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Modoc War
MODOC WAR (1872–1873). One of the costliest of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, the Modoc War officially began on 29 November 1872 because of a misunderstanding between the Modoc Indians and the United States. Settlers, who began moving through Modoc territory as early as 1843, set off conflicts that led eventually to war. This war is known as the Modoc War
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Red River War
The Red River War, a series of military engagements fought between the United States Army and warriors of the Kiowa, Comanche, Southern Cheyenne, and Southern Arapaho Indian tribes from June of 1874 into the spring of 1875, began when the federal government defaulted on obligations undertaken to those tribes by the Treaty of Medicine Lodge in 1867. These series of war are known as one big ''Red War''.
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Battle of Rosebud
The Battle of the Rosebud Creek, Montana occurred on June 17, 1876, between the U.S. Army and its Crow and Shoshone allies against the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne during the Great Sioux War of 1876.
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Battle of the Little Bighorn
In late 1875, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians defiantly left their reservations, outraged over the continued intrusions of whites into their sacred lands in the Black Hills. They gathered in Montana with the great warrior Sitting Bull to fight for their lands. The following spring, two victories over the US Cavalry emboldened them to fight on in the summer of 1876. This led to the battle known today as "Battle of the Little Bighorn"
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Cheif Joseph
Chief Joseph (1840-1904) was a leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Tribe, who became famous in 1877 for leading his people on an epic flight across the Rocky Mountains. He led them during a battle known as the "Nez Perce" battle.
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The Wounded Knee Massacre
Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. This left 150 Native Americans dead and was the last battle between the federal troops and the Sioux group.
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