"The peaceful part, ditto.
In all my research on the Eastern Woodland tribes, I have yet to run across a 'peaceful' one. If your tribe was 'peaceful', it didn't exist past the next spring. That was the hard truth. No modern liberal (or member of the Shinnecock tribe as it is currently constituted) would want to live how they did back then."
Yes, but this is as true of the tribes of Europe and elsewhere.
Warfare is a part of life.
There was not a lot of total warfare, and the lack of concentrated power in centralized government meant that many "wars" were really just gangs of young men lead by some charismatic guy going out and fighting other gangs of young men.
Within the big national zones there was not a tremendous amount warfare in the "total war" sense. There was the equivalent of crime and border skirmishes. Think feudal Europe without fortresses and you are not all that terribly far off.