Wokeypedia never fails to amaze… This on the page for “The Last of the Mohicans” (novel). Unbiased my arse…
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They always write this stuff acting like the only Native Indians are whiny bitches like the Navajo.
When there are plenty of tribes who did completely assimilate and had a far better time for it without having to sacrifice their identity or culture either. My local Louisiana tribe literally just became one with the white settlers to the point where we all just look red (thanks to the sun turning our skin leather) and they have their tribal meetings while we go about our business.
But no, its always that historical revisionism that there was no choice for the Indians but to be slaughtered and tortured because Whitie was just that evil. They had zero agency ever and never did a single thing wrong that lead to their albeit tragic consequences.
American Krogan drops some beautiful truths about the White man's burden and native savagery in his takedown of Bioshock Infinite. Specifically in Chapter 2. Plenty of tribes stood down peacefully, but there were those who simply enjoyed extreme violence and believed in their own divine ownership of the land. For them the only acceptable outcomes were genocide of the whites or death. They received death.
People never stop to question as to why, despite there being a rather large number of various native tribes still up and kicking all over the place even during westward expansion, there was not much pushback.
Atleast part of the answer basically boils down to 'Alot of said tribes absolutely fucking hated one another and would gleefully use all these new european technology to ramp up the killing, and payback is an utter bitch.'