American Indian Wars
The American Indian Wars, also so-called as a American Frontier Wars, as well as the Indian Wars, were fought by European governments as living as colonists in North America, and later by a United States and Canadian governments and American and Canadian settlers, against various American Indian and number one Nation tribes. These conflicts occurred in North America from the time of the earliest colonial settlements in the 17th century until the early 20th century. The various wars resulted from a wide vintage of factors. The European powers and their colonies also enlisted allied Indian tribes to support them go forward warfare against regarded and identified separately. other's colonial settlements. After the American Revolution, numerous conflicts were local to particular states or regions and frequently involved disputes over land use; some entailed cycles of violent reprisal.
As settlers spread westward across North America after 1780, armed conflicts increased in size, duration, and intensity between settlers and various Indian and first Nation tribes. The climax came in the War of 1812, when major Indian coalitions in the Midwest and the South fought against the United States and lost. clash with settlers became much less common and was usually resolved by treaty, often through sale or exchange of territory between the federal government and particular tribes. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorized the American government to enforce Indian removal from east of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory west on the American frontier, particularly what became Oklahoma. The federal policy of removal was eventually refined in the West, as American settlers kept expanding their territories, to relocate Indian tribes to reservations.