There's a guy in Australia who made some "history" book called the "Dark Emu’ that pushes the idea that Aboriginal Australians were not just hunter gatherers and that they had settlements , agriculture, aquaculture and food storage. His own self proclaimed motivation for writing this fake history is to "rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession"
Just to give you an idea of how ridiculous this claim is that the Aboriginals had these type of advanced settlements. The Australian government once had to release a PSA video telling the Aboriginals not to sleep on the road or they might get run over by cars. Does this sound like the kind of people that would have had agriculture, aquaculture and food storage?
As you can expect though, this book got a lot of awards and gets promoted in libraries and schools
In highschool a teacher had us read the book “Mutant Message from Down Under” (google it). That book was later revealed to be a total fiction and the author a fraud.
The appeal of the noble savage is strong.
Ibn Khaldun was an Arab historian and historiographer. He more or less invented (or at least recorded) the idea that civilization is driven by strong tribes and men from hard environments and places, they conquer the rich and fat cities, and within 2-3 generations they are fat and weak, just like those they conquered. He believed very much in the idea of the strength, purity, and nobility of the nomadic Arab tribes.
The appeal of the noble savage is ESPECIALLY strong combined with modern post-slavery post-colonial white guilt.