The Last Whi-Indian War
Paiutes 1915, 1923
The Last of the White-Indian Wars
“If one were to ask someone from one of the eastern seaboard states where the last White-Indian conflict took place in our country - few would guess “Minnesota” (in 1898).
Duane R. Lund, Ph.D. The Indian Wars. Adventure Publications, Inc. Cambridge, Minn.
It has come to my attention that the last act of violence between Indian and Euro civilization occurred between the Paiutes and Mormons in southeast Utah in 1915 and 1923, not in 1898 with all due respect. The pushes the project date up from 1898, so the full span of continental war may be said to span 1492, with the arrival of Columbus and their treatment of the Arawak and others, until 1923 - with the killing of a Paiute named Posey.
The Paiute war was rather tame by standards, from 1915-1923, the war’s start and end, only Juan Chacon, Joseph Akin, and Posey were killed in fighting. The Paiutes were rather mild in large part to their proximity to a Mormon pacifist policy that kept escalation to a minimum. I did not want to make a big post from this but thought it was a worthy note to make a correction to Dr. Lund’s trivia question as well as the duration of conflict. That’s all.
Related
“In 1933, Scoutmaster Sylvester Bradford of Grayson (Blanding) asked Lynn Lyman to take his scouts to the site and mark the graves. Lynn had a stripped-down Chevrolet that would go practically anywhere a pack mule would. - Posey. pg. 33
There was doubt about whether a big car in the sand and rocks of Comb Wash could make it, but they thought it may be possible if they could get Lynn Lyman to drive. In 1923, Lynn was a kid of about 16, but he was a mechanical genius. - Posey. pg. 169
I looked but could not any evidence of a connection from Lynn Lyman to Major Lyman - who went on an epic run through Texas in 1874 with a wagon train to keep them doggies rolling through a swarm of hostile Comanche and Kiowa warriors trying to stop and hijack the train. Lyman may be a common name, but doggone it the savant driving skills and surname fit. Ok.
References
Lacy, Steve, and Pearl Biddlecome Baker. Posey, the Last Indian War. 2007.
Lund, Duane R. The Indian Wars. Cambridge, Minn., Adventure Publications, 1995.