Native Americans had different values and defined quality of life differently, so did Africans.
I hate this way of thinking about native peoples, as though their existences are static and locked in a more primitive time and they should be denied access to things that would make their lives easier and more comfortable because they're specimens in a giant anthropological exhibit rather than actual human beings with agency.
If somebody wants to live that way, let them. Under modern capitalism there's nothing would stop a guy from buying up many acres of land in the countryside (or pooling his savings with some likeminded people to do so, or paying the owners thereof for long-term access to it) and living on it the old fashioned way. But it's telling that virtually no one chooses to do so. Granted, a few communities exist around the world where those who've never stopped hunter-gathering continue to do so now. But very few people who've stopped and had a long taste of the alternative have willingly gone back to it.
Your argument was also used to justify slavery, they have made it the law in Florida that teachers can't teach that slavery was bad.
These two positions are not logically incompatible:
(A). What happened to their ancestors was a monstrous crime.
(B). They, the descendants thereof, benefited through having been born into a highly developed society.
Also, since there's so much propagandistic nonsense out there, I need a citation or credible summary of the Florida law in question before I'm willing to believe that slavery cannot be taught in Florida schools.
I doubt the native Americans, or the Slaves would agree with your assessment.
The historical victims of these crimes were grievously wronged, no question about it. I'm talking about their descendants who, whatever they might profess with their mouths, say something very different through their lifestyle choices.
