Not necessarily.
Their culture was stable and ecologically viable, and they competed well against the Russians and IIRC Spanish but were decimated by European diseases. The Haida had 40-foot dugout war canoes with British brass cannons in the bow.
Have you seen the 1995 Jarmusch movie, Dead Man?
edit: recommended. Farmer>Depp
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Dead Man (1995) - IMDb
Dead Man: Directed by Jim Jarmusch. With Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen. On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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