Indian Wars

Examples of Indian Wars in the following topics:

• Indian Resistance and Survival

  • Indian tribes fought over 40 wars for survival, killing at least 19,000 white settlers and soldiers and at least 30,000 American Indians.
  • Conflicts in the Southeast included the Creek War and Seminole Wars, both before and after the Indian Removals of most members of the Five Civilized Tribes, beginning in the 1830s under President Andrew Jackson.
  • Native American nations on the plains in the West continued armed conflicts with the United States throughout the 19th century through what were called generally "Indian Wars. " The Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) was one of the greatest Native American victories.
  • Indian Wars continued into the early 20th century.
  • Bureau of the Census (1894), The Indian Wars under the government of the United States have been more than 40 in number.

• The French and Indian War

  • The French and Indian War was fought between the colonies of Great Britain and New France, supported by American Indian allies on both sides.
  • In some countries, the war is alternatively named after combats in the respective theatres: the French and Indian War (North America, 1754–63), Pomeranian War (Sweden and Prussia, 1757–62), Third Carnatic War (Indian subcontinent, 1757–63), and Third Silesian War (Prussia and Austria, 1756–63).
  • The French and Indian War (1754–1763) is the name for the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War.
  • This is a scene from the French and Indian War (1754–1763), depicting the alliance of French and American Indian forces.
  • Describe the political and economic impact of the French and Indian War on the colonies

• The Northwest Territory

  • The Northwest Indian War (1785–1795) led to further expansion of the United States into American Indian territory.
  • The Western Confederacy, an alliance among the American Indian nations dating back to the French colonial era, was renewed during the American Revolutionary War.
  • The Northwest Indian War, or Little Turtle's War, resulted from conflict between the United States and the Western Confederacy over occupation of the Northwest Territory.
  • Following the battle, the Western Confederacy and the United States signed the Treaty of Greenville on August 3, 1795, to end the Northwest Indian War.
  • Although the Northwest Indian War, known in the U.S.

• European Wars in the Colonies

  • The British and the Dutch vied over the colony of New Netherland, the British and the Spanish fought the War of Jenkins' Ear, and the British and the French fought in a series of wars that concluded in 1763 with the French and Indian War.
  • Britain and France fought four wars that became known as the French and Indian Wars—followed in 1778 with another war when France joined the Americans in the American Revolution.
  • The British colonists' treatment of American Indian tribes led directly to the Wabanaki tribe's involvement in the war.
  • Following Queen Anne's War, relations between Carolina and the nearby American Indian populations deteriorated, resulting in the Yamasee War of 1715 and Father Rale's War a few years later, which very nearly destroyed the province.
  • The final imperial war, the French and Indian War (1754–1763), known as the Seven Years’ War in Europe, proved to be the decisive contest between Britain and France in America.

• American Indians and the War Effort

  • Some 44,000 American Indians served in the United States military during World War II.
  • "The war," said the U.S.
  • The war's aftermath, says historian Allison Bernstein, marked a "new era in Indian affairs" and turned "American Indians" into "Indian Americans."
  • Upon returning to America after the war, some American Indian soldiers suffered from PTSD and unemployment.
  • Examine how American Indian involvement in the war brought profound changes to their culture

• Madison's American Indian Policy

  • James Madison's presidency saw the continuation of the American Indian Wars as the United States expanded into and invaded indigenous territory.
  • He encouraged American Indian men to give up hunting and become farmers and supported the conversion of American Indians to a European way of life.
  • Army to protect some of the American Indian lands from intrusion.
  • Many consider Governor William Henry Harrison's victory over the American Indian confederacy at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 the climax of the war.
  • The Creek War, also known as the "Red Stick War" and the "Creek Civil War," was a regional war among opposing Creek factions, European empires, and the United States, taking place largely in Alabama and along the Gulf Coast.

• The War in the West

  • The Revolutionary War in the west was fought primarily between civilian settlers and American Indians allied with the British.
  • When the American Revolutionary War began in 1775, the Ohio River marked a tenuous border between the American colonies and the American Indians of the Ohio Country.
  • Ohio Indians—Shawnees, Mingos, Delawares, and Wyandots—were divided over how to respond to the war.
  • In order to provide a strategic diversion for operations in the Northeast, the British in Detroit began recruiting and arming American Indian war parties to raid American settlements.
  • For the American Indians, the hostilities would continue under a different name: the Northwest Indian War.

• Pontiac's Uprising

  • British expansion into American Indian land after the French and Indian War led to resistance in the form of Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763.
  • While the French had long cultivated alliances among certain of the American Indian tribes, the British post-war approach was to subordinate the tribes, and tensions quickly rose between the American Indians and the British.
  • The war began at Fort Detroit under the leadership of Ottawa war chief Pontiac and quickly spread throughout the region.
  • For American Indians, Pontiac's War demonstrated the possibilities of pan-tribal cooperation in resisting Anglo-American colonial expansion.
  • Although the conflict divided tribes and villages, the war also saw the first extensive multi-tribal resistance to European colonization in North America and was the first war between Europeans and American Indians that did not end in complete defeat for the American Indians.

• American Indians and the Revolution

  • Other native communities were divided over which side to support in the war and others wanted to remain neutral.
  • For the Iroquois Confederacy, based in New York, the American Revolution resulted in civil war.
  • Noncombatants suffered greatly during the war.
  • The Northwest Indian War was led by American Indian tribes trying to repulse American colonists.
  • The Treaty of Penn with the Indians by Benjamin West, painted in 1771

• Changes in American Indian Life

  • The tribes trained and used horses to ride, carry goods for exchange with neighboring tribes, hunt game, and conduct wars and raids.
  • When Europeans arrived as colonists in North America, many American Indian tribes began selling war captives to Europeans rather than integrating them into their own societies as they had done before.
  • The slave trade of American Indians lasted only until around 1730 and gave rise to a series of devastating wars among the tribes, including the Yamasee War.
  • The Indian Wars of the early 18th century, combined with the increasing importation of African slaves, effectively ended the American Indian slave trade by 1750.
  • The wars cost the lives of numerous colonial slave traders and disrupted their early societies.