What are some of your recollections of the portrayal of Native Americans in your history textbooks?

Were they often portrayed as unknowing, or even unintelligent people as compared to white Europeans in your history textbooks? Or were many of their advanced methods explained to your satisfaction?What are some of your recollections of the portrayal of Native Americans in your history textbooks?
I had an a high school class about natives that was really good.

The instructor was passionate about the natives and their way of life.

It had a positive effect on me and my attitude.What are some of your recollections of the portrayal of Native Americans in your history textbooks?
"Savages" as far as living up to the standards of "society" (i.e. in houses, bathing, food utensils) but in agricultural knowledge, breeding of domestic animals, and survival in the rugged plains of the mid-west and southwest (i.e. hunters, builders, nomads) they were more then efficient in the sense that the European actually learned quite a bit from them. Of course, disease killed more Native Americans then bullets, as televison depicted in westerns (TV/movies).What are some of your recollections of the portrayal of Native Americans in your history textbooks?
In the northeastern US Indians lived in long huts. In the west the Indians killed George Armstrong Custer in a massacre. One of the chiefs of those Indians was in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.