The colonization of the Northern Hemisphere between 1500 and 1900 produced nearly 150 separate conflicts between colonial powers and Native American communities. These conflicts have been largely overlooked in studies of international relations, particularly the quantitative tradition of scholarship. This article introduces a new dataset on conflicts involving Native American groups and colonial actors. As a starting point, this article briefly examines how the discipline has approached Native Americans and indigenous peoples. Next, the criteria for a new dataset on Native American Conflict History (NACH) is introduced. The challenges of navigating the historical record are discussed. And finally, a descriptive statistical overview of the data is presented that explores temporal and geographic patterns in the frequency, scale, and duration of conflicts. The article notes different patterns between European state combatants and ‘settler’ state combatants. Notably, the frequency of conflict increases dramatically in both Mexico and the United States during the second half of the 19th century while the scale of conflict remains largely unchanged.

在1500年至1900年之间对北半球的殖民化在殖民大国与美洲原住民社区之间产生了近150次单独的冲突。这些冲突在国际关系的研究中，尤其是在学术的定量传统上，被很大程度上忽略了。本文介绍了有关涉及美洲原住民团体和殖民者行为者的冲突的新数据集。作为起点，本文简要地考察了该学科如何与美国原住民和土著人民接触。接下来，介绍了有关“美国原住民冲突历史”（NACH）的新数据集的标准。讨论了导航历史记录的挑战。最后，对数据进行描述性的统计概述，探讨频率，规模，和冲突的持续时间。这篇文章指出了欧洲国家战斗人员和“定居者”国家战斗人员之间的不同模式。值得注意的是，在19世纪下半叶，墨西哥和美国的冲突发生率急剧增加，而冲突的规模在很大程度上保持不变。