I'm frankly quite tired of this "native American" nonsense. Several of the families in my tree go back here to the 1640s. I'm as native American (12 generations now) as anyone else.
Secondly, those referred to as "native American" merely walked across the Bering land bridge during the last Ice Age, or in some circumstances in western South America sailed eastward from New Zealand, Indonesia through the Pacific islands to present-day Chile, Bolivia and Peru. (Yes, Bolivia is landlocked now - but only lost the Atacama region to Chile after the War of the Pacific in 1879.) The American Indians displaced the previous residents of North and Central America, and quite likely conquered the other immigrants from Oceania in South America.
Thirdly. people referred to them as savages because they exhibited savage behavior. Europeans didn't scalp their vanquished victims, nor did they run them through the gauntlet. Yes, the reservations were created to give American Indian tribes their own land but with the agreement of the tribes.; This is why Indian nations to this day are treated as sovereign nations within the US borders...because the Indians demanded it. Trust me, there were enough treaty violations on both sides to make both sides ashamed of themselves, but we were no worse than anyone else.
Please, let's remember the times in which these shows were created - and not make yourselves guilty of trying to re-write history to PC standards. Truth is truth, and the PC view of the world is a pack of tripe. Enough, already. Enjoy the shows for what they are, when they were produced.