<Li> Pequot War of 1636--38 between the Pequot tribe and English colonists (together with their allies the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes) in what are today Massachusetts and Connecticut </Li> <Li> Kieft's War (1643--45) in the Dutch territory of New Netherland (modern - day New Jersey and New York) between Dutch colonists and the Lenape people </Li> <Li> Peach Tree War (1655) large scale attack by the Susquehannock Nation and allied Native Americans on several New Netherland settlements along the Hudson River </Li> <Li> Esopus Wars (1659--1663) conflicts between the indigenous Esopus tribe of Lenape Indians and colonialist New Netherlanders during the latter half of the 17th century in what is now Ulster County, New York </Li>

The indian wars on the great plains lasted from