what’s truly hard for the modern mind to comprehend is that our societies are the exception to the rule of history, not the norm. as the ancients go, that type of thing (along with total scorched-earth genocide of other tribes) was basically commonplace.
Would this exceptional modern society of ours you speak of just happen to be the one founded on the genocide of Native American tribes?
that’s not who we are any more
200 years ago might as well be 20,000 to the modern mind