Strongest Native American Tribe

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I voted "other" for the Apaches

http://www.crystalinks.com/apache.html

I believe Cheyenne with apaches were the strongest

My vote has been fot Incas, but the different north-central cultures like Olmecs, Apotecs, Mixtecs, Mayas, and Azthecs were very strong during some periode.

I voted for the Incans as they controlled more territory, and probably more people, than any of the others. They were also the most efficient organisers of the Native Americans. Futhermore, their empire was more centralised than the Aztecs, and less despised by their nieghbours and subjects as a whole. One of their most impressive feats, in my opinion, was thier road system, which covered the entire empire, itself comprising of almost solely rugged terrain. The roads even had  rest/storage houses at regular intervals across its entire length, along with messengers at standard intervals 

Originally posted by pinguin I vote for the Mapuches, (also known as Araucanos)   It's paradoxical that the most powerful pre-colombian empires were defeated with relative easy. Some warrior tribe, though, could stand and defeat the Spaniards.   The Mapuches were never defeated or controlled by the Spaniards. They were free up to 1881. And, in certain real sense, they never gave up, not even today. They copied European tactics and applied them against the invasors.   Here is Lautaro, the greatest Mapuche Hero, with the ancient Mapuche flag (which now is part of the Chilean flag)       Pìnguin

Maya, beautiful and strong.

Surely one of Southern American tribes: Aztecs or Inca. Mapuches seem to be strong, but Pinguin You could have add how big land they controled.

I voted for the Aztecs. In the book Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus, a sci-fi novel by Orson Scott Card. Card speculated that if the Aztecs would have had a few more decades, they would have been the ones to explore and conquer lands across the Atlantic. 

He supported this by saying that the shift of power, that occured shortly before Cortes' invasion, greatly weakened their civilization because it put a halt to the Aztec's technologicl advancement 'projects.' He also said the Aztec's religious belief in human sacrifices killed many people whose skills could have enhanced the Aztec's technology.

It's a funny thought, completely speculative, but it is the famous question historians ponder all the time "what if?"

The aztecs had a proper, good and well kept empire. the only problem is that they had annual sacrifices of 58000 people a year.