I have a hard time reading "peaceful co-existence" into the post you are responding to, particularly since conflicts between aboriginal groups are a recognized

I have a hard time reading "peaceful co-existence" into the post you are responding to, particularly since conflicts between aboriginal groups are a recognized part of their history. What we don't seem to understand very well is the nature of territorial claims prior to European contact. It is overly simplistic to paint these aboriginal groups as small tribes that claimed small geographic spheres since they ranged from nomadic groups that migrated across large territories, to small villages dependent upon fishing or agriculture, to relatively advanced large cities. Yet regardless of the type of society they formed, our understanding of how they regarded their geographic sphere is tainted by the mostly Western histories written of them from the time of contact. Not only are these histories tainted by religion and politics, but they are tainted by how those historians understood the world.