1850–1886

U.S. campaigns against Apache peoples

Southwest and northern Mexico; Apache communities

Military operations attacked villages, livestock, and crops and forced people toward reservations. Apache resistance continued across the international border, which divided preexisting homelands.

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Context / qualification

A long series of campaigns with varied participants and causes, not one continuous battle.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 7
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8

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