1865 - 1870 : The Hualapai War. (1 Jan 1865 Jahr – 1 Jan 1870 Jahr)

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With the discovery of gold in Prescott and the creation of the Beale Wagon Road, tensions between settlers and indigenous people heightened every year. In 1865, tensions between the tribes and settlers reached their peak when drunken settlers killed the well-renowned Yavapai leader Anasa. As a result, the Hualapai tribe, along with their neighbors, the Yavapai tribe, raided American settlements and cut off access to the road, which received a response from the U.S. Army Forces. A brief nine months of peace was achieved through a peace agreement until another leader, Chief Wauba, was murdered over a treaty dispute. For the next four years, both American settlements and indigenous villages were raided and burned to the ground.

By 1868, the Hualapai and Yavapai warriors began surrendering because whooping cough and dysentery greatly weakened them. Although a vast majority of them surrendered, a warrior named Sherum continued the war for another two years in retaliation against the unjust treatment of indigenous people and the encroachment of settlements on indigenous land.

“From that time, my father had bitter vengeance for soldiers and all the white people because of the way the soldiers had treated my mother. When my mother ran for her life and crawled in a rock hole, she was pulled out and shot several times with bullets. My father, with several others, would go down the Salt River valley looking for soldiers or any white men to kill.” -Mike Burn (Hoomothya). (The Autobiography of Mike Burns, Yavapai Apache).

To spread more disease, the U.S. government deliberately "gifted" the Hualapai and Yavapai people blankets infested with smallpox as a part of systematic genocide. By 1870, the war ended with ⅓ of the Hualapai and Yavapai people killed by the conflict and European disease.

Image 1: The Hualapai and Yavapai people point their guns.
Image 2: Drawing depicting indigenous people distressed, diseased, and dying.

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