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There is more at stake here than treaties between the Indian nations and the United States or the individual states (treaties in the Eastern states were often between a particular tribe and a colonial or state government). The dominant cultural outlook in academia is profoundly anti-Western and anti-Christian. European civilization is projected as evil and inhumane, and the culture of the Indians is believed to be a variant of Rousseau’s concept of the Noble Savage. There is no certainty as to how the earliest human settlers of this hemisphere perished. If the Northeast Asian migrants acted like the Israelites did in Canaan or the Angles and Saxons did in Britain, the earlier inhabitants would have been subject to genocide and slavery, with the few survivors driven to safer havens. In other words, the Northeast Asians of several thousand years ago did the same thing to the earlier inhabitants as the Europeans did to them in the 16th through 19th Centuries. Any use of their society as an ideal contrast to the supposed evils of Euro-American culture would be seriously compromised.

" If the Northeast Asian migrants acted like the Israelites did in Canaan or the Angles and Saxons did in Britain, the earlier inhabitants would have been subject to genocide and slavery, with the few survivors driven to safer havens."

Recent DNA studies have dispelled the idea that the Anglo-Saxons committed any sort of genocide in the British Isles.

See this book: Origins Of The British for the details.

"Now Stephen Oppenheimer’s groundbreaking genetic research has revealed that the ‘Anglo-Saxon invasion’ contributed only a tiny fraction to the English gene pool. "

Actually, except for some dumba$$e$ in the Middle East most of your barbarian tribes were into killing warriors, enslaving the boys and non-warrior men (who were probably slaves already), and putting the gals in the sack to make more babies ~ and clean up the place a bit.

Occasionally you'd have somebody like The Great Law Giver come along and convince the Iriquois to organize a Confederation, and to use their slave tribes as tax farms.

Life was tough and cheap labor was hard to come by. As recent genetic research has revealed, the Angel and Saxon invaders who conquered Brittain really didn't exterminate the original people ~ they're still there ~ they just think they're English these days.

Compounding the confusion, William the Conqueror brought in tens of thousands of Bretons from Brittany to England, to replenish the blood-lines anyway.

BTW, "European Culture" means different things to different people. Most of my own people came here as refugees FROM that culture, or as slaves of that culture.

I think they ended up creating a new culture. For one thing it has no hereditary nobility and we look down on people who want to turn notables or politicians into the equivalent of nobility.