My grandfather gifted me a set of books called Frontiersmen of New York and he kind of raised his eyebrows at me and said it was a real history that might surprise me. He died before I would read it (feels bad) but when I did I found that it was a collection of interviews with people who were only a generation or two away from those who settled New York. The oldest people told stories about their parents. Many if not most stories featured the natives, not through direct description, but by the descriptions of consequences like the deaths of family and community members, and it was really gruesome and eye opening to read these people's words because their perspective is never proffered by media, ever.