the Pacific, 138
Wahunsonacock, 60
Wakapuchasee (Cowkeeper), 101
Wampanoag people, 64
warfare: colonial, 57â60; and colonial expansion, 65â66; in French and Indian War, 67â71; against Haudenosaunee, 76â77; in New England colony, 62â64; in Ohio Country, 71â74; and scalping, 64â65; in Virginia colony, 60â62; in war of independence, 74â76; âwilderness,â 64.
See also
irregular warfare
War on Poverty, 182, 208â9
Warren, Dave, 176
Washington, George: and Cherokee Nation, 88; on âforeign entanglements,â 121; and Haudenosaunee, 77; as hero, 107; and Ohio Country, 81, 82; and US Army, 80; and US colonization, 93
Watie, Stand, 135
Wayne, âMadâ Anthony, 82â83, 86
WCU (Working Class Union), 166
wealth accumulation, 43â44
Weaver, Jace, 148
Wells, William, 83, 87
West, war to win, 144â46
westerns, 218
Weyapiersenwah (Blue Jacket), 81, 83, 85
White Earth Nation, 216â17
white supremacy, 36â39
Whitman, Walt, 117â18, 130â31, 253n2
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 130, 131
Wilcox, Michael V., 42
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 252â53n19
wilderness, myth of pristine, 45â47
âwilderness warfare,â 64
Williams, Robert A., 3â4
Wilson, Richard, 186
Winchester, Sarah L., 234â35
witchcraft, 35â36
Witt, Shirley Hill, 181
Wolfe, Patrick, 2, 10
Wolford, Phillip, 194â95
women: in Indigenous governance, 27; violence against, 214, 262n32
Working Class Union (WCU), 166
Wounded Knee Massacre (1890), 93, 155â57, 162
Wounded Knee siege (1973), 186â91, 193
Wovoka, 153
Yankton Sioux Reservation, 164â65
Yoo, John C., 222â23
Yurok Nation, 169â70
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