It's the myth of the peaceful native, you see it everywhere. The Maori tribes in New Zealand were fucking brutal, they slaughtered and ate each other, their entire culture was centered around being the fiercest warriors possible. When the Europeans came, the Maori tribes bought weapons from them and started killing each other even more.

Yet today, the revisionists will have you think that the Maori were a wise civilization of magical forest druids, living in perfect harmony with nature and the spirits of their ancestors until the evil Europeans came and destroyed everything.