Hi Jim...
-> LP> I think that every culture has engaged in some form of warfare.
-> It's my impression that native Indian warfare was the restricted
-> ('primitive') kind.
-> JC> I'd say you'd probably have to be more specific about the tribe,
-> time and place.
Oh sure, step on my generalization.  :->
-> JC> And I suspect that at _some_ point in time, _some_ native tribes
-> did attempt (and were quite possibly successful) total elimination of
-> their enemies including men, women and children.
There's a mass burial site in modern Germany that is said to contain
men, women and children who were massacred more than 7000 years ago.
The motive appears to have been plunder of some sort.  Our relatives,
the chimpanzees, have been known to wipe out rival groups.
I wish to be reincarnated as an elephant...after the human race dies
out.
-> JC> There is one tribe in Eastern Washington that has a long-time
-> tradition of never engaging in warfare even in self-defense. (The
-> Sanpoil)
That's good...I think.
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