Not all indians were savages. Many on the East coast owned plantations. It was mostly indians to the west that you are talking about.  But the point is, that whites dont have to justify building this country. It's stupid to argue about who started it. Who cares? But it was the indians on every level, all the way back to Europe. They were all stone aged, loin cloth clad, dirty, smelly, violent savages. Just the ones in the West were the worst. Many of the eastern indians like the Cherokee adopted White ways, but before they did that they were savages. The Cherokee were some of the worst for raiding villages, killing babies and little kids, raping women etc... Which may explain why there are so many White Americans(aka Americans) who have minor Cherokee ancestry, Blacks too. The Cherokee loved to rape White women and Black ones too. All of the indians were savages, some were just quicker to adopt White ways.