1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

It's worth reading "1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C Mann if you have the time.

https://www.amazon.com/1491-Second-Revelations-Americas-Colu...

What happened is that European disease created massive pandemics that killed most of the American Indians. No one was seduced by western culture, because, in general, American Indians had a better standard of living than the European colonists.

Where I live, (in Massachusetts,) the remaining American Indians integrated into European settlements because so few of them were left. I know its different elsewhere in the American continents; you can find out more if you read 1491 and its sequel 1493.

One critical point in 1491, by Charles C Mann, is that pre-contact, American Indians generally had a better quality of life than Europeans.

Link to book: https://www.amazon.com/1491-Second-Revelations-Americas-Colu...