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ID: 901002296
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002296
Record Type: Event/Narrative

Indian Wars (American history, 1790-1890)

Note: Period of conflict between the United States and Native Americans, consisting of several long-range wars and many smaller battles and skirmishes. Each conflict had varying Native participants, but all were related to hostilities based on American expansion into Native territory and/or retaliation against Native lifeways (e.g. Ghost Dance movement). The first conflicts considered part of this period were directed under president George Washington's (1732-1799) tenure, including the Northwest Indian War directed against the Shawnee and Miami tribes. The Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890 is generally considered the last major event of the Indian Wars; the Massacre, decades of conflict and the creation of the reservation system likely contributed to the cease of Native military resistance.

Display Date: 1790-1890

Names:
Indian Wars (American history, 1790-1890) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
Wars, Indian (American history, 1790-1890) (English,A,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Named Events (P)
....<North and South American history> (P)
........<United States history> (P)
............Indian Wars (American history, 1790-1890) (P)
Related Iconography:
related to .... Ghost Dance Movement
..........(Named Events, North and South American history, United States history, Ghost Dance Movement (American history, 1889-1890)) [901002308]
associated with .... The Trail of Tears
..........(Named Events, North and South American history, United States history, Indian Removal (American history, 1830-1839), The Trail of Tears (American history, 1838-1839)) [901002299]
associated with .... The Long Walk
..........(Named Events, North and South American history, United States history, The Long Walk (American history, 1863-1866; 1868)) [901002300]

Other Relationships:
actor is .... Andrew Jackson (American major general, president, 1767-1845)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
actor is .... Tecumseh (Shawnee chief and orator, 1768-1813)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
related to .... colonization
.....(governmental functions, functions by specific context, functions (activities), Functions (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
role/characteristic is .... war
.....(armed conflicts, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
related to .... American Indian reservation
.....(native peoples reservations, settlements by occupants, inhabited places, Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), Built Environment (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
located in .... United States
.....(North and Central America) (TGN)
actor is .... George Washington (American general and president, 1732-1799)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
related to .... Curtis, Edward (American photographer, 1868-1952)
.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)
related to .... Catlin (American painter, 1796-1872)
.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)
related to .... Charles Bird King (American painter, 1785-1862)
.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)
related to .... Frank A. Rinehart (American photographer, 1861-1928)
.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)
related to .... Kicking Bear (Native American chief and painter, ca. 1846-1904)
.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)
actor is .... Sitting Bull (Sioux chief and painter, 1834-1890)
.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)
actor is .... Geronimo (Apache leader, 1829-1909)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
actor is .... Bear's Heart (Cheyenne artist, 1851-1882)
.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)
actor is .... Black Hawk (Native American draftsman and painter, 1832-1889)
.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:
Indian Wars (American history, 1790-1890)
................The Autry online (2008-) "Indian Wars," accessed 12 May 2020, "Indian War Photographs,"
................National Museum of American History [online] (1999-) "Indian Wars," accessed 12 May 2020, "The Price of Freedom: Americans at War,"
................Sleeper-Smith, Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest (2018) 5-9; accessed 12 May 2020
................Coward, Indians Illustrated (2016) 108-114; accessed 12 May 2020
Wars, Indian (American history, 1790-1890)
................Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Coward, Indians Illustrated (2016) 108-114; accessed 12 May 2020
................ Sleeper-Smith, Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest (2018) 1-12; accessed 12 May 2020
................ The Autry online (2008-) accessed 12 May 2020, "Indian War Photographs,"
................ National Museum of American History [online] (1999-) accessed 12 May 2020, "The Price of Freedom: Americans at War,"
................ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 12 May 2020, "Dream or Vision of Himself Changed to a Destroyer or Riding a Buffalo Eagle,"
................ NMAI [online] (2005-) accessed 12 May 2020, "Patriot Nations: Native Americans in Our Nation's Armed Forces;" "Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations,"

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