I agree with you, I was not intending to make it seem that the Indian's were culturally inferior or less than human. I too have studied Native American history, and I also got to spend time an a Dakota reservation, but sadly that was in middle school and I can't remember all the details, I do remember how awesome it was to see cultural artifacts and eat the various foods.
Putting the pretentiousness aside for a moment, I did a ton of traveling, accidentally ended up with a career, dealt with some deaths, etc etc. Started to miss NF and the people (well, mostly just the people who used to comment regularly in the SL Convo thread) when I finally finished Bleach this past week.