Pan Indianism is so dangerous largely because it shortens and flattens colonial history

I mean East Coast Natives came into contact w/ settlers sometimes 200-300 yrs before Plains Nations and West Coast folks.

The "Indian Wars" on the Great Plains happened AFTER the Civil War. Custer literally served the Union. Those are two drastically different times and societies. Not that any Native tribe's history is more important its just when you look at it thag way-

It makes us as a people more dimensional because not only are our cultures different but the amount of time and forced assimilation tactics have been applied longer to certain Nations than others

We all know East Coast Native & Caribbean Native history and culture faces a large amount of erasure from Yts and Natives because of anti-Blackness. Our Nations are either originally Afro-Indigenous or so blended there is no determining whose ancestors were more of what

Nor does that matter cause culture isnt phenotypical. All I'm saying is look at the history of your tribe and its timeline woth colonization, juxatapose that with a tribe far away from yours. And just think about it a lil.

Tainos contact was 1492, Cherokees 1540, Lakotas sometime in the 1700s, coastal Salish folk like 1792 or something.
Those are some big ass time differences and that has influenced our cultures and their progression a lot.