there was nothign to modernize about natives
these people were living a simple ass life for like 800 years there was no modernizing those people
they simply exploited the natives.
There is stories about natives sending a canoe with food, and even woman on it and the whites sending the canoe back empty with the woman's throat cut
they saw the natives as inhumane savage animals and they wanted them all rather destroyed or converted to christianity where they could be further exploited. Welcome to earth in 1500.