I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion this is a "straw man"? Did you read the article? his comment was directly copied from it : "Colonizers could lear

I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion this is a "straw man"? Did you read the article? his comment was directly copied from it : "Colonizers could learn a great deal from Indigenous resilience, as we all confront a twenty-first century that feels hauntingly like the seventeenth: beset by violence, disease, hatred." By stating they could learn a great deal does imply they "bumbled along". It also isn't very accurate as there was a lot of technology sharing at the start of things. The FN shared a great deal with the newcomers on how to survive here.