Indigenous People of North America and Europe

Indigenous Peoples and Canada
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In the early modern age, the majority of the Europeans neglected the fact that their people were capable of bloodlust and instead believed that the exceptional bellicosity of the Iroquois was due to their lack of religious belief and uncivilized state. Nonetheless, in ways that were extremely foreign to Europeans and were mostly incomprehensible to them, the battle was of the utmost significance in the civilizations of the Iroquois and their neighbors throughout the seventeenth century. For many generations of Euro-Americans, the importance that Indians devoted to combating appeared to justify stereotypes of bloodthirsty savages who engaged in a war for the sake of amusement. This perception persisted even though many Indians did not see conflict in this way. Only in the most recent decades have ethnohistorians begun to reject such shibboleths; nonetheless, given the weight of prior bias, their work has almost unavoidably emphasized parallels between Indian and European military tactics.. As a result, neither the general public nor academics have given much weight to the idea that pre-contact North American non-state civilizations would have conducted war for reasons other than those pursued by European nation-states. This is so even if it's possible that indigenous North American cultures without states weren't any less rational or any more barbarous than our own. While it's likely that non-state groups in indigenous North American society suffered for far longer than this, the reality remains. Ritcher (2013) gave this hypothesis by investigating the shifting role that warfare had in Iroquois society over the first hundred years following an initial encounter with Europeans.[Richter, Daniel K. "Trade, Land, Power." In Trade, Land, Power.] [Richter, Daniel K. "Trade, Land,...