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Navajo and Apache War
The Apache Wars were a series of armed conflicts between the United States and Apaches fought in the Southwest from 1849 to 1886. But the minor hostilities continued till 1924. -
The Sand Creek Massacre
This was was an atrocity in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory. -
The Red Clouds War
This war was an armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho and the United States in Wyoming and Montana territories.The war was fought over control of the Powder River Country in north-central Wyoming. -
"A Century of Dishonor" by Helen Hunt Jackson
She wrote this book in an attempt to change government ideas/policy toward Native Americans at a time when effects of the 1871. She detailed the adverse effects of government actions in her history. Jackson sent a copy of her book to every member of Congress, at her own expense. She hoped to awaken the conscience of the American people. -
The Red River War
This war was a military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874, as part of the Comanche War, to remove Native American tribes from the Southern Plains and forcibly relocate them to reservations in Indian Territory. The war only lasted a few months before it was over. -
The Battle of LIttle Bighorn
The battle of little bighorn also known as "Custers Last Stand" was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. -
The Dawes Servalty Act
The dawes Servalty act authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.it was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society by Individual ownership of land was an essential step. -
The Battle of Wounded Knee
There was a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote that was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it. A scuffle over Black Coyote's rifle escalated and a shot was fired which resulted in the 7th Cavalry's opening fire killing Men, Women, children as well as own troops.
