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Navajo and Apache Wars
Navajo Wars three distinct periods of conflict in the American
west.These conflicts ranged from small-scale raiding to large expeditions mounted by governments into territory controlled by the Navajo. -
Sand Creek Massacre
Massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was an atrocity in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864.700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory killing and mutilating an estimated 70–163 Indians. -
Red Clouds War
Red Cloud's War was also name as the Bozeman War or the Powder River War was an armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho and the United States in Wyoming and Montana territories from 1866 to 1868. -
Red River War
The Red River War was a military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874.. Lasting only a few months, the war saw several army columns crisscross the Texas Panhandle in an effort to locate, harass and capture highly mobile Indian bands. -
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand. native americans involved The U.S. Seventh Cavalry includes the custer battalion a force of 700 men led by george A armstrong custer suffered a severe defeat.Custer was killed as were two of his brothers, a nephew, and a brother-in-law. -
Century of Dishoner
Century of Dishonor is a non-fiction book by Helen Hunt Jackson that chronicles the experiences of Native Americans in the United States.itattempt to change government ideas/policy toward Native Americans at a time when effects of the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act making the entire Native American population wards of the nation had begun to draw the attention of the public. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890.orning of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota.during the process of disarming the Lakota a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it. Black Coyote's rifle escalated and a shot was fired which resulted in the 7th Cavalry's opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their own fellow troopers. -
Dawes Severalty Act
The Dawes Act adopted by Congress in 1887, 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. Individual ownership of land was seen as an essential step. also provided that the government would purchase Indian land exces
