✦ History

American Indian Wars

1609 – 1924

Three centuries of wars between European colonists, later the United States and Canada, and Native American nations, which ended with the conquest of the continent and the confinement of its peoples to reservations.

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Battles and events 4

April 6 – August 27, 1832
Black Hawk War Northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, Henry Atkinson
December 23, 1835 – August 14, 1842
Second Seminole War Florida Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, John Tyler
1876 – December 31, 1877
Great Sioux War of 1876 Powder River country Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Henry Sheridan, George Armstrong Custer
December 29, 1890
Wounded Knee Massacre Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota Spotted Elk, James W. Forsyth

Key commanders

United States and allies 9

Winfield Scott Zachary Taylor military commander Henry Atkinson belligerent leader Edmund P. Gaines military commander John Tyler Martin Van Buren Andrew Jackson belligerent leader Duncan Lamont Clinch belligerent leader Francis Langhorne Dade military commander

British Band 2

Black Hawk belligerent leader Wabokieshiek belligerent leader

Seminole 2

Ar-pi-uck-i belligerent leader Osceola belligerent leader

United States 3

Ulysses S. Grant President of the United States Philip Henry Sheridan Commander of the Division of the Missouri George Armstrong Custer Commander of the 7th Cavalry

Other 4

Spotted Elk Lakota chief, killed James W. Forsyth Commander of the 7th Cavalry Sitting Bull Lakota leader Crazy Horse Lakota war leader