Being grateful when being sustainable is good. But driving up to a whale in a motor boat, spearing it with a spear, and then shooting it with a 50 cal, or netting a whole river of salmon is either wrong or not. Being grateful and performing a ritual afterwords does not undo that.

I didn’t say anything about being better now. I am saying that being less technologically advanced means they were more limited in thier ability to do harm. They did “exploit”. Just not as effectively. That is what technology enables. They didn’t have the technology to do the wrongs that we have today.

Native Americans are just as susceptible to moral failure as anyone else.

We aren’t better. We are the same.

Our moral progress has not kept up with our technological or economic progress. That is a moral failng, not a technological or economic one.