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I would call them fighters/warriors, not terrorists. While undermanned and undersupplied, they still fought opposing armies face-to-face, and they employed sound, orthodox military tactics. They won many battles outright and decisively. I don't see where the concept of terrorism applies to american indians wholesale. They committed acts of violence against civilians on occasion, but as a fighting force, it wasn't their central modus operandi. They were primarily warriors who fought in a formal battlefield setting against other warriors, unlike todays terrorist whose primary MO is to target civilians principally and/or fight from the cover of a civilian-populated area.
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