There is a lot of literature on such themes of war and conquest among indigen-
ous civilizations. Much of it is burried in books, but Ross Hassig, Aztec
Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control (Norman: University of
Oklahoma, 1988) is a good place to start.
If there is such a need, I can expound at length on how the Incas and Aztecs
where expansionalistic empires that trampelled their neighbours. I also have
a somewhat lengthy bibliography on Latin American indigneous civilizations,
if anyone is interested in this. One point I would like to make, though,
is that any imperialism ont he part of indigenous empires does not justify
the barbarity of the european conquest.
Marc Becker
University of Kansas
Marc@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
mabecker@ukanvm.bitnet
[ How about the situation among the natives of North America? --Gary ]