I find the romanticizing of indigeous people as kind of silly. They're not magic, and are very much like everyone else. No one who is from a pre-literate culture knows what has been going for more than a couple of generations, beyond myths and legends. In 2022, the number of people on this planet who have not been exposed to the greater world is diminishingly small. If anyone wants to find out how indigenous people lived, history and anthropology are both available for their perusal.

Native Americans gladly traded almost every beaver in North America for guns, shot, powder, and cloth blankets. I don't see any indigeous people in the Amazon basin today rejecting outboard motors or metal machetes or cookware. The Inuit have made snowmobiles an important part of their culture. Africans have been fleeing the countryside and their traditional ways of life for Africa's megacities for generations because living in a hut with no electricity or a toilet sucks, and it's also not very healthy. And they all want satellite phones.

Only someone who has never even been camping would think that traditional, pre-industrial cultures are better somehow. Imagining that indigenous people should maintain their primitive lifeways is actually kind of cruel, especially for the women who do most of the actual work. If you want to see a traditional pre-literate indigenous low carbon footprint culture that is resisting Western ways and technology with all of their might, check out the Taliban.