The left worships victimhood. They see Native Americans as perpetual victims, so they romanticize them and like to act as if they were above the same things that define much of human history.. Whereas if they were around today, being pitied and coddled is about the last thing they'd want. These were hyper-masculine cultures, extolling the virtues of the warrior making a name for himself, not shying away from hardship but embracing it, while also showing utterly no mercy to those that stood in their way or fell into their hands.

I'm Cherokee myself, so I'll not be lectured by those with no grasp of history or romanticized as some sort of descendent of noble savages. Native Americans of all kinds were human beings just like everyone else, and had human motivations such as greed, desire for power and glory, and everything else that drove human ambition. My own Cherokee people had those among them during the Civil War who owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy. It also remains the crux of an ongoing legal battle; the descendents of slaves the Cherokee held up to that point wanting to be recognized as being Cherokee themselves because of this.. Of all the ridiculous things to willingly go to court for, and deal with all the bullshit that the legal system entails.