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Oh hell yes. Different Native American tribes had completely different cultures, and several of them had long histories of brutal wars between each other, both before and after the Europeans arrived. They didn't invent scalping just for the white dudes. Same is true of Africa: Europeans came and bought slaves, but they were buying them from other Africans, who had been busy capturing and enslaving each other for centuries as part of tribal warfare. It certainly doesn't excuse the behavior of the Europeans in either case, but the "noble savage" stereotype is pretty much always false.
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