Do people realize that American Indians kept slaves, Stole children, Lived in a virtual state of war, claimed and controlled land by war and had no concept of private land ownership?
Don't romanticize them. They had their good points and bad point just like any civilization.
And I have Native American blood that I can trace back to the 1700 in Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyando...ndot_dispersal
Due to European immigration the tribe was devastated by disease.