Oh, Maggie
Speaking as a vegetarian here, I think you kind of have to put things in perspective. I'm German, but I grew up in Colorado and have spent a lot of time in New Mexico, Wyoming (yee-haw!) and a summer in Montana.
Never, not once, did I encounter a Native American who believed in or followed all that super-spiritual stuff. Not once.
Near as I can make out, the Native American peoples were/are just like all the rest of us.
Gah, I can't abide this pseudo-holier-than-thou stuff ascribed to "native" cultures.
If you want to object to teaching poor children how to kill and skin a useful source of protein, go right ahead. But, please, don't gussy up history to do so.
I read yesterday that many US schools are now forbidding Thanksgiving celebrations so as not to offend the sensibilities of their Native American students.
Can you say Abraham Lincoln and something positive to rally the country around? Sure you can. Or you could, if your teachers were still able to teach you.
Americans are basically sensible people. When did all this political correctness bull-shit take hold?
Before I get off me soapbox, anyone who has ever lived in the countryside - Germany or the US (I have in both countries) knows that the only good raccoon is a dead one. If I really hated someone, that's what I'd give them - a pregnant raccoon.