This. This scene right here completely defeats any of the "Native Pride" popular mythos going around these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVqQosyOpg4 Show this to people. It's the unfiltered truth. American Indians were still pre-bronze age and didn't even have a wheel yet. Unrelated, but interested to think about: The introduction of horses by the Spanish did create a "conquest vacuum" among the Plains Indians tribes though. If you had horses? You were smashing your non-horse opponent tribes. The horse completely revolutionized the tribes that were lucky to have come across them.