The Indian Uprising | Historical Context
The Vietnam War During the 1960s
Barthelme wrote ‘‘The Indian Uprising’’ in the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, one of the longest wars in U.S. history. In fact, critics have argued that the battles against the Comanches in the story echo images of that war.
American involvement in Vietnam began in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when the United States contributed resources to help the French create an anti-communist regime in their colonial territories of Indochina, as the region was then called. Eventu ally, the French gave up their control over Vietnam, and...
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