[sphinx]

Ironically, the less advanced but hardier and simply tougher Plains Indians put up a much better fight proportionately.

Nah, they were just a bigger hit with Hollywood, probably because horses and panoramic vistas are easier for the camera than skirmishes in the woods. Think King Philip, Tecumseh, Little Turtle, the Iroquois and the French and Indian War(s), the Creeks, the Miami, the Seminoles ... or Braddock, Harmer, and St. Clair. Just for starters. The Plains Indians were just a casual mop-up operation, aside from Custer's little mistake.

Excuse the off topic post. I just gotta stick up for my half of the country on some of these minor points ....

[wardaddy]

That's why i said proportionately. Geronimo was no mop-up. The large tribes in the East did in fact in some cases fight like all Hell but they were much larger in number. I will cede that the Eastern Indians also had to deal with basically a human wave enveloping them whereas the nomadic hunter tribes in the West fought more against government forces. Additionally, I will cede that they likewise were the last to submit because they were the last to be in the way. But, I do stick by my premise that for their numbers, some of them fought exceptionally better than most of their peers...