Indian wars

Between 1622 and the late 19th century, a series of wars and skirmishes known as the Indian Wars took place between American Indians and European settlers, mainly over land control.

What makes 'civilized' western peoples different from indigenous peoples such as Native Americans? Our relationship to nature is psychopathic, whereas theirs was reverential.

“Custer's Last Command,” a painting by Richard Luce, depicts chaos on Last Stand Hill. Custer is the mounted officer (upper right), wearing his signature red scarf but not his buckskin jacket, which he’d fastened behind his saddle. He rode his horse Vic into battle, a sorrel thoroughbred with a white blaze and three white stockings. In front of him is his adjutant W.W. Cooke; the buckskin clad officer at center is Tom Custer and the hatless youth to Tom’s right is Custer’s nephew Autie Reed.

Series - French and Indian War - The French and Indian War played a significant role in shaping North America as we know it today. Although it officially began in 1756 as part of the Seven Years War, the French and Indian War had engagements taking place years prior. Between the British and French colonists, and the Native Americans all living on the same continent, a conflict was only inevitable. The French and Indian War was a fight for supremacy of the Ohio Valley region, between the…

“Here’s to a star … or a coffin!” George Armstrong Custer (shortly before his ‘last stand’) July 1876, the valley of the Little Big Horn, Black Hills Dak…

British Indian troops during Anglo-Boer War

Campaign dress for George Armstrong’s Custer’s 7th Cavalry during the 1870’s Indian wars.