id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1668 American Indian Wars - Wikipedia .html text/html 14314 1429 68 British merchants and government agents began supplying weapons to Indians living in the United States following the Revolution (1783-1812) in the hope that, if a war broke out, they would fight on the British side. The British further planned to set up an Indian nation in the Ohio-Wisconsin area to block further American expansion.[3] The US protested and declared war in 1812. Find sources: "American Indian Wars" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) However, regions of the West that were settled before the Civil War saw significant conflicts prior to 1860, such as Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon, California, and Washington state. Main article: List of American Indian Wars The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607-1890: A Political, Social, and Military History (3 vol 2012) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1668.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1668.txt