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Mexican Anishinabek-United States War
During the 1830s the Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi who were forced by the United States to relocate to western Iowa and northwestern Missouri, would prove to the United States that their will to stand up against American corruption was indeed strong. About the time of the 1836 Heatherly War, is when the Three Fires Confederation of Iowa and Missouri migrated to Mexico (Texas) and probably Montana, to escape that horrible American corruption. The Three Fires Confederation likely aided Mexico in their war against the rebel white Texans during the mid 1830s. By the time of the Mexican-United States War of 1846, the Three Fires Confederation was already well established in what is now the modern country of Mexico, and in fact, the Three Fires Confederations warriors likely aided Mexico in their war against the United States. After the United States defeated Mexico, the Mexican government proved more than willing to arm the Three Fires Confederation and their Kickapoo and Seminole allies, as well as allow them to seek safe haven in the mountains of the Mexican State of Coahuila.
For a good 18 or 19 years the warriors of the Three Fires Confederation and their Kickapoo and Seminole allies, waged a guerilla war of retaliation against the United States. And then by 1864 another large group of Anishinabek, Kickapoo and other Indians of the Kansas-Oklahoma region, agreed to flee to Mexico while the United States was at civil war. The Confederate States caught wind of their actions, and knew if they didn't stop them the war the Mexican Anishinabek were already waging on Texas would intensify. However, the Confederate States were soundly defeated by the Three Fires Confederation and their allies. Afterwards, the Mexican Three Fires Confederation and their Kickapoo allies increased their guerilla war of retaliation against the United States. In 1873 the United States secretly sent scores of their soldiers to Mexico (without Mexico's approval) to massacre an group of Indians who were primarily women and children. After the massacre the guerilla war of retaliation eventually ended.
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