[dennisw]

“But the Indians fought amongst themselves for territorial rights in the same manner.”

Not as often as you would think. This continent was thinly populated with not much pressure on resources such as hunting grounds. Tribes went to war for the sake of going to war. Warriors-braves wanted war so they could return home successfully with more prestige within the tribal hierarchy and return with captured females

[RaceBannon]

read about the pequot war, the wars against the Mohegans and Niantics, often spelled nehantics

The reason so many helped John Mason attack the pequot fort was because the Pequots were slaughtering the mohegans and Nehantics

[Cvengr]

This continent was thinly populated with not much pressure on resources such as hunting grounds.

Well stated.

I've had a pet peeve with some 'Native Americans' who might have 10% heritage of a mixed tribal background, who continually claim the White Man owes them (they're also 80% German/Anglo white) for stealing the North American Continent from them.

They also claim the 17th century Native Americans had cities with over 1 million inhabitants in the upper Northwest and throughout the US.

I can buy that perhaps 1/4mil lived throughout the North American Continent, generally in 40-4000 person groupings spread out around riverine communities, but I don't witness the Engineering support requisite for populations larger than 50,000, nor the archeological evidence as one finds in Europe.