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The Powhatan Confederacy nearly wiped out the struggling Jamestown colony.
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In New England, Puritan forces annihilated the Pequots.
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Employing Indian auxiliaries and a scorched-earth policy, the English colonists nearly exterminated the Narragansetts, Wampanoags, and Nipmucks
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Nathaniel Bacon and a group of vigilantes destroyed the Pamunkey Indians before leading an unsuccessful revolt against colonial authorities
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One of the America's most hard fought wars of that time. The French and Indians teamed together to fight the British. The result was a British victory and the Treaty of Paris.
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King George III following Great Britain's gain of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, issued this Proclamation, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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Ottawa chief, Pontiac, forged a powerful confederation against British expansion into the Old Northwest.
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Indians who sided with the crown joined the Tories and the British in the unsuccessful offensives of John Burgoyne and Barry St. Leger in upstate New York.
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The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America ended the American Revolutionary War
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650 Colorado volunteer forces attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment along Sand Creek. Although they had already begun to peace negotiations with the U.S. government, more than 150 Native Americans were killed.
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Protesters temporarily seized control of Wounded Knee, the major Indian-white conflicts in the United States had ended. Militarily, several trends had become apparent. New technology often gave the whites a temporary advantage.
