Did the American Indians have railroads? Did they have cannons? repeating rifles? Did they have steam engines? microscopes? weaving machines? Those were the things they faced in the 19th century when their culture was competing with American/Western culture. My point, which you ignore, is that old or primitive cultures will always be eliminated by more advanced ones. Do American Indians today drive cars? use computers? Take antibiotics? Watch television? They themselves are part of the process. In America today, we are taught in 2nd grade that everyone is valuable and everyone gets a prize. Sorry, but history and evolution do not teach this.
What good are cannons and computers when you have no food to eat. You totally ignore the contributions Native Cultures have made to agriculture, medicine, and architecture, to name just a few.
When the corn blight wiped out the “White Man’s Corn” it was back to the Native Americans of the Southwest that the U.S. Bureau of Agriculture appealed. The “dumb, stupid, backwoods injuns” had a disease resistant corn. Guess what! They saved our corn fields.
They were also capable of gowing corn where white men failed. WHY? Because they paid attention to where the rains and snows drained off the cliffs and peaks and planted accordingly and deep into the earth. THEY created and understood and were the forerunners of “irrigation systems.”
HOW did the cliff dwellers engineer to the final degree the placement of support beams in order to allow the construction of high-rise dwellings that existed and still exist for over a thousand years. They also understood the principles of cantilever balconies and other support systems.
They originated creosote treatments of wood to prevent rot as well as perfecting a “glue” that was the forerunner of “Superglue” only they had it a thousand years ago.
The Cherokee could not go to war without permission of the “War Woman.” A member of the tribal council who was the ONLY person capable of declaring war! A woman in such an important place on a tribal council....oh my....the world is going to end. (sarc.)
Next time you take an aspirin remember the “Indians’ used it ages ago for the very same reasons you do!
Besides the fact that the Plymouth Colony would all have died without the help they received from the natives, there are hundreds of examples off why your arrogant idea that they were an inferior people is HOGWASH!