When I grew up, history classes always taught that native people were perfectly in touch with nature and were never harmful to the planet or each other. Obviously it’s better than not teaching about them at all or teaching them as bloodthirsty savages but pretending that literally every North American native society pre colonization is completely peaceful and never made mistakes is very disengenuous and not true. It’s holding actual people on a pedestal, and lying like this basically suggests genocide is only bad when done against a literal perfect population. Plus I imagine indigenous people want yo learn about their actual history not some sanitized version of it.
To be completely fair I feel a lot of history classes focus on one singular narrative like this is because students tend tonot really care about the subject at all but still you could at least agnowle ehat societies were actually like and that there’s a lot of nuance between them.