Empires vs. Native Tribes : 7 Of The Most Brutal Ecounters In History

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The Maori are on all top ten greatest warrior cultures lists alongside the Spartan and Samurai for a reason. The haka was no idle threat.

Living on an isolated island, Maori had no range weapons. No bow and arrow. Not even throwing spears (slings only). So all fighting was hand to hand with predominantly bludgeoning and slashing weapons made of greenstone, hardwood, volcanic rock, or whalebone. No shields. No armour. Up close and personal. Brutal as fk.

All warriors were trained from childhood in the art of warfare and the weapon based maori martial art, mau rakau. They were extremely athletic and disciplined warriors. Intertribal warfare was just a part of life. When the firearm arrived, this warlike culture took to it like a duck to water.

The Maori fought a brutal 30 year war with the British in the mid 1800s. The colonialists had much admiration for the military nous of the Maori. They knew how to fight using asymmetrical warfare tactics. And they understood their land.

The introduction of gunpowder sparked old intertribal conflicts igniting into the Musket Wars between warring tribes that killed 40 thousand Maori. When the New Zealand Wars broke out against the British Empire, the Maori were already battle hardened and battle tested.

Masters at ambush, guerilla, seige, psychological, and close quarters warfare, they proved formidable opponents. Just as they did a century later against the Nazi, who referred to them as "The Scalphunters" for their propensity to fix bayonets and trench raid, finishing the enemy off with knives, tomahawks, and even traditional weapons. See Maori Battalion.

Always heavily outnumbered and outgunned, the Maori used knowledge of the terrain, ingenuity, and trench warfare to neutralise the firepower discreprancies. This was 50 years before the famous trenches of WWI.

Sophisticated multi levelled zig zag trenches with hidden firing pits, tunnels, and bomb proof bunkers. They had flax covering their firing pits that the musket balls would just bounce off. With shotguns traded for from american sealers and traditional bludgeoning and slashing weapons in their arsenal. Once the Maori could fool the enemy into close quarters combat..

It was over.

Modern Native American Warrior Alex Perreira now travels the world conquering Empires.

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Thanks for your brilliant research and videography.

This is amazing thank you from New Zealand! Would love a video about the musket wars sometime. Cheers

You have to remember that the majority of these native tribes did not even have metal tips for their spears until they encountered European metallurgy. They were basically Stone Age people. The only time they had success against Europeans was when they had vast numerical superiority. For instance, Custer was outnumbered, 20 to 1

Umm there were infantry survivors at islandwanda.

I enjoyed this video and that it was a longer than normal thanks

These videos are great! Thank you. Have you ever heard of the explorer who encountered, supposed giants when on his expedition to the new world?

We will NOT forget,, walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart,and youll never walk alone,walk on

The Native American, the Australian Aborigines, the Inuit, the Mayan, the Aztec, the Pacific Islander's, European Tribes, the Tibetans ( just off of the top of my head, fill me in if I am missing more) all Tribes people worldwide, through much a stretch of time, have been systematically wiped out in the insatiable drive of Empire and will to power . I believe there is much more here than just the acquisition of resources. There is something here heavily based around genealogy and the origins of people, that I think is symbolic of the Serpent/Eagle Symbolism.