Wars involving Indigenous peoples of South America

Indigenous peoples of South America have been involved in several wars of different scale and nature. Conflicts with Iberoamerican states and between different Indigenous groups have decreased over time.

• Chanka–Inca War (c. 1438)
• Colla–Inca War (1445–1450)
• Chimor–Inca War (c. 1470)
• Inca–Mapuche War (some point between 1471 and 1493)
• Inca Civil War (1525–1527)
• Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (1532–1572)
• Arauco War (1550–1662)
• Calchaquí Wars (1562–1667)
  • First Chalchaquí War (1560–1563)
  • Viltipoco Rebellion (1594)
  • Second Chalchaquí War (1630–1643)
  • Third Chalchaquí War (1658–1667)
• Huilliche uprising of 1712
• Mapuche uprising of 1723
• Juan Santos Rebellion (1742–1752)
• Guaraní War (1756)
• Mapuche uprising of 1766
• Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II (1780–1782)
• Huilliche uprising of 1792
• Chilean War of Independence (1810–1822)
• Occupation of Araucanía (1861–1883)
  • Mapuche uprising of 1881
• Conquest of the Desert (1872–1884)
• Sierra campaign (1881–1883)
• Bolivian Civil War (1898–1899)
• Peruvian Internal Conflict (1980–2000)