In Mèxico, there are about 280 different Indian tribes. Of them all, the most war-like is the Yaqui tribe, which, to give you an idea of how war-like they really, really are, they chased the Apache Indians out of the rich lands of western Mèxico and up into the desert and mountains of northern Mèxico and the Southwestern US where the Apache caused so much trouble for the United States army. Allied with the Mayo, Opata, and Pima tribes (at different times), the Yaqui fought the Spanish fron 1533 until Mèxico won her independence, and fought the Mèxican government until about 1927. Of all the tribes of Mèxico, the Yaqui tribe is the only one that never surrendered, and, today, still maintains its own villages and tribal formation, including tribal elders and form of tribal government.
It is an interesting history, but what is most interesting is what you do not read about in the published history of the Yaqui tribe, and that is how they managed to defeat so many of the armies sent against them, most of which were numerically superior to the Yaqui and allied forces.
The Yaqui did not quell from fighting the soldiers sent against them, but they knew that there was an endless supply of such and that they could never kill all of the soldiers. But, they could cut the head off of the snake; i.e., kill the leaders of the soldiers sent into the field against them.
And that is what they did. They would send out a small group, perhaps only one or two men, whose only responsibility, even at the cost of their own lives, was to cut the head off of the snake. And they did. Time after time, and leaderless armies were much easier to cut to pieces and demoralize than properly lead armies.
That secret of the Yaqui, and the deadly seriousness that they followed it with, to cut the head off of the snake, is what kept them free, and maintains their freedom today, whereas all of the other Indian tribes in Mèxico have been completely subjugated.
It should be food for thought in these times of peril.