Only in liberal textbooks.
No, in reality.
“The civilization of the Indian is impossible while the buffalo remains upon the plains. I would not seriously regret the total disappearance of the buffalo from our western prairies, in its effect upon the Indians, regarding it as a means of hastening their sense of dependence upon the products of the soil and their own labors.”
That’s Columbus Delano, Interior secretary at the time. (Probably an FDR ancestor at that).
Granted that’s a state puke looking to make sure some pretty damned independant people become dependant upon the state...