[ However, when food was scarce, natives “fasted. The Europeans took this as “evidence that natives were uncivilized,” Butler writes, citing an email she received from someone who wrote a book.
Can’t. Stop. Laughing. ]
Depends which tribe, some tribes had their crap together more than others, some were very violent and savage, some like the Iroquois and Cherokee were a lot more civilized and they even borrowed some of their customs from the colonists from europe. Usually a good rule of thumb was that if a tribe was settled it was more civilized than a tribe that was nomadic, because a lot of nomadic tribes were marauding nomadic tribes. Not all mind you, but it was a rule of thumb for that time.
Granted, the colonists did a lot of sins concerning native peoples, but it wasn’t a one way street, it was the messy process of two cultures clashing, there was a lot blood on both sides and a lot of blood even before the other side even arrived.