I haven’t heard a single Native American say they’d rather still be living in the stone age. Running around naked, making crude weapons out of rocks and sticks, sacrificing each other to their pagan gods, and living to a ripe old age of 25. What a life. Contrary to what they’ll usually say, America didn’t belong to Native Americans any more than it belonged to the rabbits who lived on it. They owned individual tribal lands separated by large swaths of no man’s land. There was not even a collective identity, being mostly at war with one another. They’re better off now, since they still own large reservations that are more like independent countries than anything else.
If you really look into Ancient American archaeology, you will find that life was much different here 2,000 years ago, than in 1500AD. There is quite compelling evidence of Northern Europeans not just visiting, but settling down. There is also evidence of Hebraic culture, paleo-Hebrew carvings etc, up and down the East Coast. When Columbus “discovered” the Americas, the entirety of the Americas, was in a fallen state. Civilizations that had arisen in the past, were long gone, or in the case of the Incas and Mayans, teetering on total collapse. Whatever happened, and who was on this continent first, is really not taught about, or thought about in archeological circles. It is simply taboo.