Reading "The Dawn of Everything" really opened my eyes to how much our understanding of Native American culture is entirely driven by White colonial narratives. It wasn't just everything in this meme, its the consequences of them. These weren't "tribals" waiting for civilization to come to them, there was a sophisticated and advanced ecosystem of nations here, not always peaceful but rooted in an entirely different world view and systems of interaction than Europe.

To the extent that when NA ambassadors traveled to Europe, they would report back with what barberous and disgusting people the Europeans were, for all the reasons that would sound familiar today: abandoning the sick, old, and poor to die; worshipping wealth and commodities over people and community; pollution; environmental destruction; exploitation; religious hypocrisy; and more.

The "Native Critique of European Culture" is devastating, as further evidenced by how many early colonies "failed" (including the famous "missing" Roanoke colony) because the indentured servants, prisoners, and other folks who made up early colonists much preferred to "go native" than be forced into exploitative labor relationships with the foreign power.