It wasn’t just a tactic of American Indians, but a tactic of virtually all tribal societies over all of human existence. Just read the Illiad if you want examples of Europeans from recorded history, or the hundred years war for a later example near the birth of the nation-state.
Yes it was, I never said it wasn’t. Fortunately though these tribes were by and large conquered, and nation states and civilized by the time europeans began settle the New world.
American Indians were too Conquered, if civilization had evolved in americas and Europe was still nothing but savage tribes and expansion had happened the other way, the same result would have occurred.