Did the Native Americans today benefit from colonization?

What the British did? It wasn't the British that drove natives across the country on the Trail of Tears. It wasn't the British who carried out massacres at places like Wounded Knee. read more

Granted, the ancestors of today's Native-Americans most certainly did not benefit from colonization. Most of them were wiped out! But their descendants today would live much, much harder lives had the European settlers never came to America. read more

Oftentimes colonization was justified with the doctrine of the Civilizing mission, which was supposed to modernize and benefit the native peoples, though oftentimes it simply turned into exploitation. read more