Soviet states also had a sort of fascination and admiration with American natives, they even created a genre of western films called Osterns that inverted the Cowboy-Indian dichotomy and glorified Native Americans above the settlers.
And before anyone accuses them of Noble Savage tropes - the more defensible examples of these films depict Native Americans as civilized and complex, and depict the Cowboy/settlers as the savages. They may be slightly guilty of orientalism or something similar, but this predates western noble savage ideology which is mostly just a way for whites to assuage their own guilt while the Soviets quite explicitly showed the massacres and genocides of the whites and often imagined a world where history went differently and was more optimistic - whereas I feel white noble savage tropes are meant to make the native genocide feel inevitable
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And before anyone accuses them of Noble Savage tropes - the more defensible examples of these films depict Native Americans as civilized and complex, and depict the Cowboy/settlers as the savages. They may be slightly guilty of orientalism or something similar, but this predates western noble savage ideology which is mostly just a way for whites to assuage their own guilt while the Soviets quite explicitly showed the massacres and genocides of the whites and often imagined a world where history went differently and was more optimistic - whereas I feel white noble savage tropes are meant to make the native genocide feel inevitable