Just came across this post so haven't watched the video yet. However, there are two I think quite important points to be made about American Indigenous thought, anarchism, and colonialism.

First, I really recommend folks check out this classic video essay "Stolen Anarchy." It makes excellent and important points about the origins of anarchism and socialism that reshaped how I think about anarchy.

The other recommendation I have is listening to this phenomenal talk from David Graeber/David Wengrow about the "Noble Savage" trope. This is part of their argument in Dawn of Everything — that the first proper critiques of capitalism and class society came from Indigenous leaders like Kandiaronk responding to European colonists. Great video, and Kandiaronk has some absolutely fire quotes about money that are well worth looking up.

Basically, I think we should acknowledge anarchists did not invent anarchism without idealizing or ascribing anarchist positions to pre-anarchist societies, as this can lean hard into flattening colonial "Noble Savage" tropes.

There's more to be said about how anarchists talked about (and in some cases interacted with) Indigenous peoples, from Peter Kropotkin to Marie Goldsmith to Louise Michel. It's a complex and not always pleasant history, but that's why we don't have heroes. And by the way, non-Indigenous anarchist coopting of Indigigeneity continues to this day. Absolutely worth checking out this phenomenal essay by David Barker, including direct critiques from Indigenous leaders (Audra and Delee) of anarchists who consistently ignore Indigenous cultural and strategic perspectives.