The native Americans were slaughtering each other well before Europeans arrived. Romanticizing aboriginal civilization, and gainsaying western civilization, is lame. Civilizations rise and fall. The native Americans hadn’t even invented the wheel. Arabs and Palestinians can’t even manufacture a paperclip. It is not helpful to romanticize native Americans or Palestinians. Native Americans slaughtered each other, just like Arabs (and other Muslims) do. These are crappy “civilizations.”