The US Army in
the Indian Wars

Dedicated in memory of

Unteroffizier Johann Baptist Plößl,
Königlich Bayerisches 6. Infanterie Regiment
"Kaiser Wilhelm von Preußen"

Battles between the native tribes and the European colonists began early. Conflicts continued until the end of the 19th century. The insignia shown here is meant to represent the period between the Civil War and the War with Spain, centering on 1876.

The following list shows the breadth of conflicts; * denotes the US Army Named Campaigns of the Indian Wars:

Powhatans	1622 - 44	Virginia
Pequots	1637	Connecticut and Rhode Island
King Philip's War	1675 - 78	Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Pueblo Revolt	1680 - 92	Arizona and New Mexico
French and Indian War	1689 - 1763	Eastern Woodlands
Tuscaroras	1711	Northern Carolina
Yamasee	1715 - 1718	Southern Carolina
Pontiac's Conspiracy	1763	Ohio River Valley, Michigan
Lord Dunmore's War	1774	Southern Ohio River Valley
Miami *	1790 - 94	Ohio and Indiana
Tippecanoe *	1811	Wabash and Tippecanoe Rivers, Indiana
Creeks *	1814	Georgia and Alabama
First Seminole War *	1816 - 18	Florida
Black Hawk War *	1832	Northern Illinois and Southwestern Wisconsin
Second Seminole War *	1835 - 42	Florida Everglades
Navajo Conflicts	1849 - 63	Arizona and New Mexico
Sioux Wars	1854 - 90	Wyoming, Minnesota, and South Dakota
Third Seminole War *	1855 - 58	Florida Everglades
Apaches *	1861 - 1900	New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Mexico
Utes *	1865 - 68, 1879 - 80	Utah
Comanches *	1867 - 75	Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas
Modocs *	1872 - 73	Northern California and Southern Oregon
Red River War	1874 - 75	Northwestern Texas
Battle of the Rosebud	1876	Rosebud Creek, Montana
Little Big Horn *	1876	Southern Montana
Nez Perces *	1877	Oregon, Idaho, and Montana
Bannocks *	1878	Oregon
Cheyennes *	1878 - 79	Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Montana
Wounded Knee/Pine Ridge *	1890	South Dakota