As Europeans sought to control newly settled American land, wars raged between Native Americans and the frontiersmen who encroached on their territory, resources and trade.
In an effort to achieve centralization and effective political control, Krishna Deva Raya appointed Brahmans and capable nonkinsmen as commanders, garrisoned the forts with Portuguese and Muslim mercenary gunners, and recruited foot soldiers from local forest tribes; he also created the rank of lesser...
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...
About one-third of these were peace treaties, but it is open to question what relationship should be understood between these treaties and "peacemaking" as construed above. Since 1871 the United States has declined to sign treaties with Indian tribes, though it has continued to sign "...
There were many wars, conflicts and battles between different tribes of American Native Indians and the U S Cavalry. Some of these Indian wars ended in bloody massacres. In 1864 the infamous Sand Creek Massacre which resulted in 400 peaceful Arapaho and Cheyenne men, women, and children and ...
What began as the French and Indian War in 1754 between the British and French armies escalated into what many see as the first global war. Both sides garnered support from Indigenous tribes, including members of the Iroquois Confederacy for the British and the Wabanaki Confederacy for the Frenc...
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage. Yet we shall find that the latter is, after all, governed by the impulses and motives that govern all other men. The want of confidence and the bitter ha...
Casino wars.Reports on the battle between Indian tribes Warm Springs and Grande Ronde over access to the Portland, Oregon gambling market. Deal between Warm springs and Governor Ted Kulongoski; Threatened lawsuits from environmentalists against Warm Springs....
This drove some Indian tribes to help the foreigners for protection, others for survival. Is this not the current situation we find ourselves in? We have the notable betrayers and self-saboteurs – the Marxist Leftist. We know them by their actions against us. They bleat on about '...
It would be these rise of tensions brought on by the French fur trade and the Foxes’ own aggressiveness towards both the French and the other Indian tribes that would lead to the First Fox War between the years 1712 through 1716. It would be a war between the Foxes and some of their ...