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Navajo and Apache Wars
Both the Apache and Navaho were warlike tribes who inhabited mainly what is now New Mexico and Arizona. Their warriors resisted and the encroachment of white civilization upon their territory. -
Sand Creek Massacre
When a 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, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. -
Red Cloud's War
One of the most successful wars ever fought against the United States by an Indian nation. -
Red River War
Was the last major conflict between the U.S. Army and the southern Plains Indians. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
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. -
"A Century of Dishonor"--Helen Hunt Jackson
In an attempt to change government ideas 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. -
Dawes Severalty Act
Policy work designed to free up western land for white settlers and acculturate American Indians to American values and practices. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
"The hope of the Ghost Dance" The last important fight between American Indians and United States troops. It is often called a massacre; the band of Sioux involved in it was almost wiped out.
