Editing American Indian Wars (section)

{{Important}}{{Act of Villainy|date=1609–1924|name=American Indian Wars|crimes=[[Genocide]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>Invasion<br>Forced assimilation<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Anti-Native American Sentiment]]<br>[[Negrophobia]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]|perpetrator=Spanish Empire<br>Kingdom of France<br>Kingdom of England<br>Kingdom of Scotland<br>British Empire<br>Dutch Empire<br>Swedish Empire<br>British America<br>British North America<br>Dominion of Canada<br>Dominion of Newfoundland<br>Russian Empire (1721-1867)<br>United States (1776-1924)<br>Vermont Republic (1777-1791)<br>Mexico<br>Portuguese Empire<br>Republic of Texas (1836-1846)<br>[[Confederate States of America|Confederate States]] (1861-1865)<br>Native American tribes|image=U.S. Army-Cavalry Pursuing Indians-1876.jpg|location=North America|motive=To remove Native Americans from their lands for white settlers (partially succeeded)}}{{Quote|The Indian wars under the government of the United States have been more than 40 in number. They have cost the lives of about 19,000 white men, women and children, including those killed in individual combats, and the lives of about 30,000 Indians. The actual number of killed and wounded Indians must be very much higher than the number given ... Fifty percent additional would be a safe estimate.|Report from the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]] regarding the wars.}}
The '''American Indian Wars''', also known as the '''American Frontier Wars''', the '''First Nations Wars''' in Canada (French: ''Guerres des Premières Nations''), and the '''Indian Wars''', were fought by European governments and colonists, and later by the United States and Canadian governments and American and Canadian settlers, against various Amerindian tribes. These conflicts occurred in North America from the time of the earliest colonial settlements in the 17th century until the early 20th century. The wars were part of the [[Amerindian Genocide|ongoing genocidal campaigns]] [[Genocide of Indigenous Peoples|against the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Canada]] during this time period.