What Is the Importance of Native Traditions?

When I wrote fingerprints of the gods in 1995, I quoted a number of indigenous myths and traditions from North America. There's been a movement in archaeology now to say that these reports were doctored by the Spanish. They deliberately introduced the notion of the white skinned bearded civilizer to promote and underpin the Spanish conquest. So there are some ancient traditions. Up until quite recently, nobody questioned these reports at all.