Sadly, that is always the case. 
I continue to laugh at those that claim that New Spain/Mexicans owned America before the Europeans. The current native Americans (basically, our indian tribes) were in the 10s of millions all the way up to 100 million. Something like 50% of these were wiped out by European diseases, but regardless, New Spain/Mexico kept trying to invade into what is now America and they never had more than 50K MAX here. OTOH, the Indians never numbered less than 1M until after all of the west became part of America and we took over the Indian wars. 

As such, when I saw that some tribe of Mexico (mexica) was celebrating HERE for 'Indegenous ppl', I had to laugh. They were the ones that NEVER made it here, but tried by killing far more than the whites ever did.