http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles Discover the history of conflict between colonial and American governments and the Native American population of the United States. en Copyright 2013, History.com Sat, 25 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT History.com 2013-05-25T04:00:00Z en Copyright 2013, History.com http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo1 On June 25, 1876 General George Armstrong Custer and his entire force were defeated and killed by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne Indians, led by Sitting Bull, at the Battle of Little Bighorn, in Montana Territory. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo1 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo2 The bones of U.S. cavalrymen killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn, in June, 1876. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo2 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo3 Sitting Bull (1834-1890), a Hunkpapa Sioux chief, led his people to victory against General George A. Custer's Cavalry in the Battle of Bighorn in 1876. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo3 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo4 Low Dog was one of the Sioux fighting chiefs at the Battle of Little Big Horn. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo4 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo5 Native American artist Bad Heart Buffalo, or Bad Heart Bull depicted life amongst the Ogala Lakota tribe in the 19th century. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo5 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo6 In 1886, Apache leader Geronimo meets with U.S. General Crook near Tombstone, Arizona. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo6 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo7 Geronimo (1829-1909), the Apache Chief who led resistance to U.S. policy stands with other Apache warriors, women and children shortly before his surrender on March 27, 1886. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo7 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo8 Shawnee leader Tecumseh led the efforts to reverse land-sale treaties between Native American tribes and the U.S government. In the War of 1812, he and a confederacy of Indians fought on the side of the British. In 1813, Tecumseh was killed at the Battle of the Thames. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo8 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo9 The bust of a Mohawk Indian marks Massachusetts Route 2, called the Mohawk Trail after its history as a trail used by the Mohawk during the French and Indian War. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo9 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo10 In 1864, nearly 200 Cheyenne men, women and children were killed by U.S. militia along Sand Creek in Colorado Territory. Several governmental commisions criticized the U.S. military actions, but no formal punishment for the massacre was ever issued. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo10 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo11 Virginia settlers defending their property against Indians during Bacon's Rebellion, 1676. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo11 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo12 Tomb stones in an Indian reservation cemetery at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, lie on the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, which heralded the last of the Indian wars in America. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo12 http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo13 In the late 1880s, rather than join their fellow tribesmen on reservations, hundreds of Pawnee Indians joined the United States Army as scouts and cavalrymen, protecting western settlers against hostile attacks in the Nebraska Territory. http://www.history.com/photos/native-americans-warriors-and-battles/photo13