Uploaded by MILITARY HISTORY 2015. The Military History of Sioux Indians and Ancient Hawaiians. Courageous, brave and proud – the Sioux were a people of war. Forced onto the grasslands by woodland tribes in the east, they had to fight to survive. Soon they ousted neighbouring tribes, seized their hunting grounds and became known as the mightiest warriors across the heartland.
Kamehameha, the leader of the Hawaiian Warriors of Paradise, trained his warriors for several years, determined to win complete control of the Hawaiian Islands.
Sioux starts at 00:10
The Sioux are a Native American and First Nations people in North America. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or any of the nation’s many language dialects.
Ancient Hawaii starts at 24:07
Ancient Hawaii is the period of Hawaiian human history preceding the unification of the Kingdom of Hawai?i by Kamehameha the Great in 1810. .
Much of what we know of ancient history is the history of militaries: their conquests, their movements, and their technological innovations. There are many reasons for this. Kingdoms and empires, the central units of control in the ancient world, could only be maintained through military force. Due to limited agricultural ability, there were relatively few areas that could support large communities, so fighting was common.
Weapons and armor, designed to be sturdy, tended to last longer than other artifacts, and thus a great deal of surviving artifacts recovered tend to fall in this category as they are more likely to survive. Weapons and armor were also mass-produced to a scale that makes them quite plentiful throughout history, and thus more likely to be found in archaeological digs. .