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Navajo and Apache Wars
The Navajo and Apache tribes have been engaged in conflict with the United states since 1849. There have been many skirmishes between them. The first conflicts began when American settlers of the Southwest began in 1847 during the Mexican-American War, particularly during the Taos Revolt. -
Sand Creek Massacre
On November 29, Col. John Chivington, who despised Indians marched the Colorado militia to a Cheyene encampment. depite the white flag (Indicated Neutrality) flying in the encampment the Colnel ordered his men to exterminate all who were in the camp. the troops attacked, killing and mutilating about 200 of the Indians, two-thirds were women and children. -
Red Clouds War
Red Cloud's War was the name the US Army gave to a series of conflicts fought with American Indian Plains tribes in the Wyoming and Montana territories. The battles were waged between the Northern Cheyenne, allied with Lakota and Arapaho bands, against the United States Army between 1866 and 1868. -
Red River War
The Red River War atarted when a spiritual leader named White Eagle claimed to have the power to render himself and others invincible to their enemies, including to bullets, and was able to rally an multiple Indians for large raids. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn took place on June 25–26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory. During the battle, more than two hundred members of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, including their commander, General George Armstrong Custer, were wiped out by a combined force of Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne. None of the cavalry soldiers survived. -
"A Century of Dishonor"--Helen Hunt Jackson
In 1881 Helen Hunt Jackson published the book "Century of Dishonor" in which she pointed out all the inequities against the Indians. Jackson's book was read by Congress members who appointed a commission to look into Indian affairs. The result was the Dawes Act that broke up reservation land into individual plots. The indiviual plots were given to Indian families. -
Dawes Severality Act
The Dawes Severalty Act broke the land of most remaining reservations into parcels to be farmed by individual American Indians
