Another myth is that the Indians lived in total harmony with the environment and took only what they needed from the land. Prior to the coming of the horse, large buffalo herds were spooked,sometimes by setting prairie fires, and stampeded off a cliff. There are several places in the upper prairies where there is archeological evidence of these “buffalo jumps”.
As a Sioux injun myself, I like to remind my white liberal friends that Indians were the most anti-liberal, politically incorrect society imaginable. They were traders (capitalists), hunters, warriors (not pacifists), chose their leadership by who was the most accomplished hunter and warrior (meritocracy), awarded success (eagle feathers were awarded after battles like campaign ribbons), wore fur, and subsisted on a diet heavy in red meat.
Oh, and they made their gay men sit with the women.