The 'Posey War' was a brief skirmish between members of the Ute and Paiute tribes and local militias in southeastern Utah, with limited US Army participation. Taking place in March of 1923, it is often classified as the final battle of the American Indian wars, and the last conflict to result in the physical displacement/relocation of tribal members. Skirmish leader Chief Posey was killed in the encounter. This also marked the end of the Ute Wars, a series of conflicts between the US government and the Ute tribe, which began during New Mexico's Jicarilla War in 1849.The first battle of the Indian wars on the territory of the eventual United States was Puerto Rico's Taino Rebellion of 1511, in which Taino chief Agüeybaná II rebelled against Spanish control, and was crushed by the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. Thus, the American Indian wars extended for a period of 412 years.
The American-Indian wars are often framed like American oppressors bullying poor defenseless Natives but in reality the reason why it always felt like the natives barely put up a fight was because most of them had already left their respective tribes and joined modern western society by the time wars with local militia broke out. The only ones who remained in their respective tribes were Chuds, which is why they were usually the most violent and retarded to begin with, and is why tribal land today are full of druggies who only LARP as natives for free government handouts.
