My immediate reaction to the use of that Zinn quote was ROFLMAO. He was right, though. And he used that fact to indoctrinate a whole generation of historically naive children from his perch at Boston University. The same place that gave AOC her “economics degree”. A good friend actually took his undergrad course, and 45 years later he still hasn’t recovered.
How many of these Indian artifacts can be reliably connected to a particular tribe? Over time different tribes occupied a particular part of the country, so the tribe there when the whites showed up were not necessarily the makers of the items that ended up in the museum.