Yes a good yard stick that! The French were the great military power at the start and until the 1820s anyway.
Who won the French Iroquois War? Oh it was not the French!
How long did the Chickasaw fight the French and their allied tribes? More than 50 years, and they were still there when the French gave up West Florida.
What broke the power of the tribes was disease more than war, and that took about 300 years. So if they make them weaker than Europeans they had better have a good explanation!
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