U.S. History Must Be Revised To Stop Glorifying Indian Killers

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19. I am sorry

But the whole 'in tune with nature stuff' is just romanticism and even patronizing.

They used fire to totally change natural landscapes, making them more suitable to their preferred species. And it is now accepted that they were responsible for the extinction of our native megafauna.

The fact is they were a low technology society with limited ability to wreak havoc on the landscape. But they did a good job with what they had.

They are humans just like we are. They killed each other and took each other's land as happily as the colonists did. Had 90% of the native peoples not been killed by disease without even seeing a European it is doubtful that Europeans could have successfully colonized the continents. In the 1500's European weapons were not that much better than what they possessed. And they were as smart as Europeans and would have quickly equalized the playing field.

There is no defending what Europeans did, but the natives were not paragons of virtue and in tune with nature like characters out of Avatar.