I mean, you've got a group of people that have been absolutely drowning in western fascist propaganda for their entire lives. I doubt they even consider parroting The White Man's Burden as racist, because they cannot comprehend an alternative. And, in fairness, its easy to simply not believe the degree to which native histories were systematically obliterated from local records because of how unconscionable it sounds.

What kind of country would rip children away from their parents, brutally abuse them for using their native tongues, and then indoctrinate them in the most foul forms of settler-colonial bigotries before dumping them back onto their reservations at their majority and telling them to go to war with their elders if they want to fix things? What kind of political leadership would actively seek out and destroy valuable historical artifacts in order to deny local people a collective history and scatter them to prison camps in the desert in order to deny any historical claim to real estate?

It can't just be that western settlers dumped bleach across half the continent in order to obliterate all evidence of a prior civilization, can it? No, no, no. This must have been the consequence of locals lacking more than the most primitive forms of historical record keeping. They were just too dumb to memorialize their past. White people had to come in and teach them how to do it.

That's why we're here and they're not. We were big and they were small. We were smart and they were dumb. We were civilized and they were animals. And now that we've fixed them, they should thank us for showing up when we did.