Plains Wars, series of conflicts from the early 1850s through the late 1870s between Native Americans and the United States, along with its Indian allies, over control of the Great Plains between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Learn more
At that time, millions of indigenous people had settled across North America in hundreds of different tribes. But between 1622 and the late 19th century, a series of wars and skirmishes known as the Indian Wars took place between American Indians and European settlers, mainly over land control...
The First Battle of Adobe Walls, was a battle between the United States Army and American Indians. The Kiowa, Comanche and Plains Apache tribes drove from the battlefield a United States Expeditionary Force that was reacting to attacks on white settlers moving into the Southwest. The battle, No...
under the Transcontinental Treaty, giving it control of the area and the power to relocate tribes to Oklahoma. Arikara War: June 2, 1823 The first Plains Indian War, took place west of the Missouri River between the semi-nomadic Arikara of South Dakota and the U.S, which was joined ...
“This is the Second Punic War, the major conflict that Rome and Carthage fought between 218 and 201 B.C. Carthage wants to crush the power of Rome and maintain its own empire. Rome must resist the initial assault and attempt to take over enemy territory or eliminate their greatest general...
Tribes including the Chukchansi, Ho-Chunk, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee require DNA tests for new members, but at the Creating Strong Nations conference reactions to the testing were mixed. Concerns are raised about the ability to geneti...
Settlers and cattle ranchers pushed the Indians out of their homelands. The result was a series of wars between the tribes and the federal government. This week in our series, Steve Ember and Sarah Long tell about some of these conflicts. ...
Though many of these meetings were peaceful, the cultures more often clashed, resulting in hundreds of battles and skirmishes between the Indians and pioneers encroaching upon their lands, as well as conflicts between the tribes and the U.S. Army. Though confrontations with the Indians virtually ...
This scenario is important because most folks are unknowledgeable about America's France and America's Britain, but it happened in 1763 that all French Lands were given between Britain and Spain. The settlers, however, remained French, so America's heritage is French Pioneers and Fur Traders. ...
The Northwest Indian War was also known as Little Turtle's War lasted from 1785 to 1795. It was a between the United States and a confederation of numerous Native Indian tribes, with minor support from the British, for control of the Northwest Territory. It followed many years of conflict ...