By Alvin Leaphart, Jesup, Ga. | The American Indian Wars, or Indian Wars, were the multiple armed conflicts between European governments and colonists, and later American settlers or the United States government, and the native peoples of North America. These conflicts occurred across the North American continent from the time of earliest colonial settlements until 1924.
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Since 1775 the United States has fought in over 100 wars all over the world including the United States and the Caribbean. Of these, 49 wars have been fought in the continental United States in the East and the West, with four of them being fought in the 20th century, the last in 1924, an Indian uprising in Utah.
In writing this, none of the violence that took place in the settlement of this nation from outlaw bands have been taken into consideration, nor has the violence of the prohibition era and the wars among the crime families of this country, nor the violence that took place during the civil rights movement in the latter part of the 20th century.
When you look at our history and couple that with the continued violence which has taken place in the Mid East for the past 2,500 years, today’s events in the world and the several acts of violence that have taken place in our country, the most recent being the explosion last Saturday in New York, should not be that unnerving.
Most of the violence that took place in the United States went relatively unnoticed by the general population up though the 1940s, mostly due to the fact that there was no television, and the media did not try to hype the events.
Americans are tough people and are not going to let these cowardly acts of violence unnerve us. We will do what we have always done, meet them head on.
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