I tend to see it all as a lot of Recycled Rousseau and The Noble Savage, living in a State of Nature without all the pesky rules of Western Civilization. The thing is, that was always a European fantasy. Native Americans were as human and as given to all human characteristics as anyone else. Tribes fought wars with one another, killed their enemies, and harbored deep prejudices about the culture and habits of those "other people" (members of other tribes). But all that gets in the way of the fantasy that they all lived in a gender-diverse, progressively-minded Garden of Eden. Especially since the 1990s, Native American identity has been constructed by progressive academics to suit their needs. Those same people are deeply inconvenienced when they find Native Americans not playing their assigned roles. The only recourse of those academics is to explain any failure to play that role as the result of colonization. They must have learned all that bad behavior from The White Man.

I think I saw an article somewhere else about the problems Canadians ran into when they decided to look into the homicide rate among indigenous women, which they were calling "genocide." The inconvenient part was when their investigations revealed that these women were being killed by indigenous men.