American Indian tribes were a lot like Muslims.
They took land from weaker tribes and then clam it as “sacred”.
Current PC history would have us believe that the Indians all lived in harmony with one another and that conquest was something introduced by European invaders. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I have never understood those who claim this primordial state of peace.
What do they think will happen to a “peaceful” tribe that’s unfortunate enough to live near a “warlike” tribe?
The peaceful tribe will disappear, is what. Unless they get warlike real quickly.
A tremendously un-PC example is the Moriori, a tribe of the same people as the Maori of New Zealand, but who had been isolated on distant islands for centuries. They had developed an ethic of peace, love and understanding.
A Maori tribe from mainland NZ hired whalers to take them to the Chathams and then promptly raped, enslaved, killed and ate the pacifist Moriori. Hopefully in that order.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori_people
A truly excellent book is War Before Civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley, in which he demonstrates to anyone but those determined not to see the proof that almost all “indigenous cultures” were vastly more violent than any modern society.
http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Keeley/War-Before-Civilization.html
I highly recommend it.