This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott

The Sand Creek Massacre, occurring on November 29, 1864, was one of the most infamous incidents of the Indian Wars. Initially reported in the press as a victory against a bravely fought defense by

Accumulated grievances, aggravated by teachings of an Indian prophet named Wovoka, who claimed to be the Messiah, brought about this last major conflict with the Sioux. General Nelson Miles,

The Indian agent, N. C. Meeker, at White River Agency in Colorado, became involved in a dispute with Northern Ute in September, 1879 and requested assistance from the Army. In response, Major T. T.

This conflict began with the massacre of about 50 Americans near an army post in Georgia -- climax to a series of raids against American settlements by Seminole based in Spanish Florida. Brigadier

Given the number of combatants, the Battle of the Rosebud was one of the largest confrontations waged in the Indian

After almost two centuries of on-and-off resistance to white encroachment on Indian lands, a band of Ohio Indians attacked and almost destroyed the army of the infant U.S.A. The battle for the Indian

The Battle of Plum Creek was a clash between allied Tonkawa, militia and Rangers of the Republic of Texas and a huge Comanche war party under Chief Buffalo Hump, which took place near Lockhart,

The Arikara War took place in August 1823 between the United States and the Arikara native Americans near the Missouri River, in present-day South Dakota. Arikara warriors had previously attacked a

The Battle of Woody Point was an incident involving the Tla-o-qui-aht Nootka natives of the Pacific Northwest and a United States registered merchant ship. After trading in the region for furs in

The series of conflicts in the western United States between Native Americans, American settlers, and the United States Army are generally known as the Indian Wars. Many of the most well-known of

Queen Anne's War, 1702–13, the American phase of the War of the Spanish Succession fought in Europe, 1701–14. The main conflict in America was between the French and British colonies. It resulted

North American tribe of the Algonquian-Ritwan language family and of the Eastern Woodlands culture area. They formerly occupied the territory between the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay and the