Both extreme portrayals are destructive. When we look at Indians as being nothing but bloodthirsty savages, it's as dehumanizing as looking at humans as beings who make no mistakes. Both extremes are dehumanizing. We survived by hunting deer in ways that would in contemporary time, be considered disastrous, even destructive in some of the ways that we took deer. As technology advanced, so did our methods.
People learn from their mistakes.
Our awareness of interrelationships changed our methods. I want to talk about clear thinking. We always looked for interrelationships between living things. But we weren't species-ists. We are taught to look at the life essence in all beings as equally important.