Ambiance, ambient, noun, adjective.

This is very pleasant, and I enjoy it.  But please, this is not traditional native North American music.  Let's keep the historical revisionism to a minimum.

El Condor pasa is not traditional Andean folk music either.

Still great. 

Ummm...

harmony.........short life spans, old women with no teeth chewing on buckskin to make it soft for the braves to wear, high infant mortality rate, leaving the old and sick behind for the wolves to take of, no written language, no cultural or technological progress for the 10,000 years after crossing the Bering Strait......

yes, become one with the earth and nature

I'm Cherokee by the way and I do have an appreciation of what was but I certainly do not think that overly romanticizing history is the way to go.

Besides, they didn't have teepee home delivery for buffalo wings and pizza.

There is much truth in what you write lwilkinson.  I would also strongly agree that there is little to be gained by romanticizing history.  Looking after the earth and keeping it healthy for all people current and future is complicated and diffficult.  Revisionist history does not help.

But as somebody who knows a little bit about resource management and personally loves the wilderness, I would like to suggest that there is a glimmer of truth in some of the heavily romanticized fables.  Let me give you an example:

Urban-dwelling, romantic greens often depict aboriginals as being in some kind of wise harmony with nature.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  NA aboriginals commited all kinds of ecological sins that came back to hurt them.  But some groups were relatively successful and seemed to manage the earth's natural riches in an aware, careful manner.

On the west coast, tribes, clans and families established relatively secure access rights to the best, most productive fisheries.  Those rights are a little different from modern rights in that usually outsiders were allowed access but at less favourable moments.   The prime users were largely responsible for stewardship and exercised this stewardship by allowing proportions of runs past weirs, for example.  Although surpluses could gifted to less fortunate neighbours, the harvesting of salmon typically slowed after sufficiency targets were met.

Early and pre-contact NW Pacific Coast salmon tribes often exercised effective economic property rights to salmon that helped prevent overexploitation.  European colonialists came along and in the early days were content to barter and trade for salmon harvested by aboriginals.  Then growing commercial and recreational fisheries started using the court systems along with some violence and intimidation to appropriate FN fisheries under the banner of 'fairness' as articulated by the open access ideology of early British Isles settlers.

In their place, colonial settlers implemented open access regimes that with few exceptions ended in costly failures.  The entitlement right to unrestricted access or unlimited effort for access to renewable resources on crown or state land is widely supported all across Anglo-North America.

On the bright side, catch share fisheries, most of them commercial, are proving to be far superior to the old first-come, first-served derby fisheries.  Overfishing is reversed.  Economic values climb; government-harvester relations become harmonious.  In the French-speaking province of Quebec, all the Atlantic salmon rivers are intensively managed with use-based fees.  Two of the best rivers in Quebec are co-managed with local FN communities.

North American FN communities did better jobs at managing renewable resources not because they lacked the technology to extirpate but because communities exercised the right to exclude others or at the very least prioritize access and then curtail all harvesting.  Colonialism took fishery management backwards. It not only impoverished FN communities but impoverished the colonial master. Hopefully that is changing now.