Reminds me of that stupid movie "Dances with Wolves" where they made the Indians look like they were a utipian society and the settlers where the barbarians.
...they were a utipian society (emphasis on the tipi)
Just havin' fun with it; hundreds of others prolly saw the same thing and decided to let it go... I guess I'm too predictable.
That's funny. I didn't get that all from Dances With Wolves. I remember watching a band of Indians brutally slaughter a homesteading family in that family. I remember some white men seriously mistreat Indians, but it was made clear that they were the absolute dregs of society, who were sent to the western frontier to get rid of them.
Although they'll deny it, the Lakota Sioux's folklore even supports the notion that they were originally from the finger lakes region of New York. As white men moved into North America, the Lakota fell back to territories which were made habitable only with the introduction of the rifle and the horse. Utopian? Hardly, but they were fairly passive among the Indian tribes which were not readily assimilated.
(Contrary to PC, most Indian tribes disappeared more because they assimilated then because they were slaughtered. I know I've got Indian ancestors; most people whose families are pre-Revolution Americans do.)
The movie presented one tribe which it allowed was exceptional in its passivity, and showed an unfortunate struggle against Americans who it did allow were exceptional among Americans in their abusiveness. It showed damn good reason why settlers were in general less than angelic around Indians.