The crazy thing about this happening with toddlers (at least in my experience) is that you're not really sure how complex their desires are until they manage to communicate them.

Settlers interacting with natives knew full well how complex their desires were – they lived side-by-side, traded, socialised, and learned from each other.[1] Any suggestion of a primitive native is self-comforting propaganda from the industrial complex that comes after the settlers.

[1]: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy; Usner; Omohundro Institute; 2014.

The settlers were greeted by English speaking native Americans who had been working the shipping trade.

Unfortunately, the settlers never really got what the native Americans were trying to say.

Which group is the toddler here?

One group had an advanced democratic government of the people which the other group struggled to learn from: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/democracy-indigenous-ame...

What an absolutely ridiculous statement. Go to reddit with that.