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I'm sorry to jump in on this topic which seems a little derailed but some of the posters make good points.
The Native Americans lived in harmony with nature just like any other non industrialized society has. They did not have sufficient means to change the environment around them so they adapted to it. When they could control the circumstances they did.
The Iroquois Indians that lived (and still do) in the area that I am in cultivated quite a bit of farmland. To do this I am sure that they needed to cut down standing timber to clear crop land. Two of their most common hunting methods involved entire villages driving dear into the center of a large fence shaped like a V by using fire and loud noises where the dear were then shot. The other involved the same driving technique but into a body of water where hunters in small boats would stab them in the lungs.
Hardly the image of the loan brave silently stalking through the woods that we all grew up with.
All societies have their good points and bad. Those very same Iroquois had some ideas used in our own Constitution but they also committed genocide on the Erie tribe that proceeded them.
There's no black and white. No super villains and super heroes in the real world.
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