Some of these tribes held war captives as slaves both before and after the arrival of the Europeans. ... Her husband was killed during a war with the Muskogees and she fell in, took his place, and finished out the war with his weapon. ... Some of the tribes also began buying African American slaves during the Revolutionary War. ... The majority of these violent Indian wars occurred in the southern United States. ... Shortly after the Civil War in 1866, a treaty was signed that granted citizenship rights to the Freedmen. ...

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