“It is disturbing to recognize that modern North America was established amid such violence” (Steele). In the historical text Warpaths: Invasions of North America written by Ian K. Steele, the author examines the development of modern North America. He focuses on two main perspectives throughout the texts; these are military and ethnohistorical perspectives (Steele). The main idea that Steele is arguing is that Modern North America was shaped by war, and violence. He effectively divides the novel into two sections, first section explores the process in which the modernization of North America was achieved. This process would be “meeting, fighting, tolerating. Cooperating, or incorporating each other into their own