I'm not so sold on the idea of Indians as noble creatures living in harmony with the land.
No Indian tribe had developed any sort of sanitation. Their nomadic ways are attributed to just that fact -they would settle in an area until the ground had become too fouled then move on down the road a bit.
They were also very eager to kill neighboring tribes, women and children first. Read some of Lewis and Clark's accounts, written in 1802, they were amazed to find Tribe A was eager to kill any and all of Tribe B if only they could get close enough.
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