Indigenous warfare was ritualized and produced few deaths

Evidence

According to their ways of war, when relations between groups broke down and conflict came, warfare was highly ritualized, with quests for individual glory, resulting in few deaths. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 149

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 149
  • XREF: connects to: The first European settlement in the Americas quickly collapsed into violence with indigenous peoples; The battle of Omdurman killed ten thousand with only forty-eight colonial casualties