Obviously, such a vastly different view of their cultures is deeply threatening to your understanding of Native Americans.  You provide exactly what I said drives your view - the "myth" of the Noble savage.  As I wrote previously, stewardship had nothing whatsoever to do with their views of nature or their place in the scheme of things.    

It's clear that you know very little if anything about Native American cultures that has not been processed through the dominant culture's lens of superiority, entitlement and racism.    I know how threatening it can feel to consider that one's entire understanding of American history, and to consider that my people aren't the smartest and best monkey ever has been based on lies.   If you let that through, the many atrocities committed by Europeans and European Americans, including those on each other, take on a level of magnitude and horror that is unbearable for those whose self-image depends on the fairy tale of American history.