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 ::I'm changing the title tomarrow it needs to be updated and more proper links need to be made to the article.   

 == 84000 sacrificed == 
 I removed the passage in which it is stated that Aztec writings claim 84000 people were sacrificed in the dedication of an Aztec temple in the 15th century. According to the cited article, the writings in question were actually 16th and 17th century post-conquest Spanish Colonial accounts. The article goes on to state that while human sacrifice may have been common, such a figure is inaccurate by orders of magnitude. This is quite an egregious example of disingenuous citation of source material.  

 == Debt slavery? Reliable source needed == 

 I've flagged the following: In Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica the most common forms of slavery were those of prisoners of war and debtors. People unable to pay back a debt could be sentenced to work as a slave to the person owed until the debt was worked off.  

 I suspect that this passage generalizes from patterns of Old World slavery and imposes them on pre-Columbian civilizations, where the concept of ""debtor"" (and ""creditor"") may be anachronistic. Bondage certainly existed, and may well have been imposed on people who were not captured in war. But if so, this needs to be explained more clearly and with good sourcing. (The cited Encyclopedia Britannica article has nothing to say about the matter.) —  alias   

 ==Article needs split== 
 There are two entirely different bodies of subject matter here; indigenous slavery by other indigenous peoples, which needs a full treatment, and the separate topic of enslavement by non-indigenous poeples.  Also the bad USian habit of using ""Native American"" for peoples not in the United States may be in teh sources provided (which are mostly USian) but it is not appropriate in Wikipedia, nor are US-only geographic references such as labelling the Haida and Tlingit as ""in Southeastern Alaska"" when they are also in British Columbia (I've fixed that).  "