Bwa ha ha ha ha, yes, that is the grand american creation myth. Perhaps you’re permanently annoyed by the truth which apparently you’ve never learned or are compelled to deny. The objective reality is that the savages were the euros, and they came with genocide, plunder and enslavement in mind; evident the moment they made land fall. Go back and read Columbus' first dispatches back home where he belonged seeing as how he was what we would now call an illegal murderous alien and not one of Europe’s best to be sending, but rather a murderer. Read what he wrote of the people he “found”.
It was euros who introduced scalping to North America. The Brits had established head hunting as a lucrative trade in dealing with the Irish, it’s just that the heads piled up so fast, they turned to scalps.
There were three vast and adanced agricultural societies in North America that far surpassed anything in Europe at the time; in the eastern portion of North America, in central Mexico, and the Andes. What made “Indians” “savages” in the euro’s eyes is the same nonsense we use to subjugate peoples via war today; they do not embrace our predatory version of capitalism and they do not follow our male dominator god or “way of life”. That’s all there is to it, ya’ll don’t manage your resources properly, so we will. And you need to die, move, disappear. “Cannibal” was the forerunner of “he gassed his own people”, it’s a get-out-of-jail-free-for-genocide-and-enslavement card. It was nothing but ignorance on the part of euros that they deemed nothing was developed or that the land was not managed. They just wanted what they saw and they slaughtered their way into/onto it.
From Columbus’ log:
They ... brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... . They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.
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As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts.
Then of course there are the Papal Bulls of the 1500s calling for the extermination of native peoples.
The historical record is very clear, it's just that fake news has been around on the North American continent as long as euros have.