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The reality is not pleasant and nobody wants to dispel the myth of the noble savage. There were serious injustices and even genocide by the Federal and State governments. The Trail of Tears being the worst example since the Cherokee adapted to the modern world and adopted European ways, too successfully for expansionist whites. But most tribes were not the noble savages portrayed by novelists and Hollywood. They were dirty, brutal and savage. They had no problem brutally murdering women and children. Those they did not kill were enslaved. Some tribes did not enslave its conquered. However, they still gave the women and children to warriors or elders to use as they pleased. Some were simply incorporated into the tribe. Other died from neglect and abuse. Mexicans hated Native tribes. Blacks and Whites fought against them. It was the modern world versus natives still living before the Bronze Age. Horses, guns, metal edge weapons and tools were all brought to the tribes by Europeans. They did not even have the rudimentary metal casting skills of 1200 BC Celts. Throughout European history, tribes still living in the Stone Age were destroyed and enslave by Bronze Age or Iron Age tribes. It was the same in America. The modern world pushed Stone Age Native American Indians towards extinction, that is societal evolution.