Bring it haters: you have no power.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-native-american-slaveholders-complicate-trail-tears-narrative-180968339/

“The Five Civilized Tribes were deeply committed to slavery, established their own racialized black codes, immediately reestablished slavery when they arrived in Indian territory, rebuilt their nations with slave labor, crushed slave rebellions, and enthusiastically sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War.”

What's your point? Mine is that a good way to CELEBRATE Indigenous Peoples Day is to share thoughts about the positive aspects of their various cultures and histories. So instead of focusing on Cherokee slavery, fact that it is, we can talk about their robust culture of letters and how they had their own native language newspapers and how that can further inspire us to value reading, writing, and sharing stories and ideas in written form.

This as opposed to criticizing Columbus by suggesting one go take someone else's car in the name of discovery. Not as good for anyone, though funny to think about.

My point is simple - no one person or group of people is without fault. Overlooking one groups faults and not another's is faulty history.

Sure. That's simple to the point of wasting time is all, especially when we live in a very negative time. Raising up good things isn't a denial of bad things. And the existence of some bad everywhere doesn't make everything the same. We can still see some things as better than others, though it calls into question one's values. Personally, I have never not related to most indigenous value systems more than some European ones.

Sure, the Cherokee and some other first nations had some awful values, but others had amazing ones. For example, among the Iroquois - they call themselves Haudenosaunee - you would only ever see hungry orphans, widows, or elders in the very worst times because it was understood the greatest dishonor of all was to have extra food when the needy were still hungry. You could keep what you and your family needed, but no more until ever other community member was taken care of. All for one, and one for all in their own way.

Do you want to talk about real history or not? If you want to talk about ugly things white people did but say hush now when addressing ugly things non-whites did, well, it looks like what you really want is anti-white hatred.

Who was doing that here? You’re inserting things into this conversation that are not there. The OP said how wonderful “First Nations” were. Berry pointed out their behavior was less than perfect. Then you claimed he was trying to justify something. BUT HE DIDN’T SAY THAT.

Sure, let’s institute mass sacrifice of conquered peoples. Do I get to pick which group goes first?