A group that would most likely be supportive of the cartoon are (I'm assuming) the farmers who plowed the lands everyday yo receive very little in return. During the timeframe of the cartoon Ulysses S. Grant was president and also led the north to victory in the civil war.
The native Americans used natural resources in every aspect in there lives. They used deerskin as clothing. Shelter was made from the material around them (leaves,saplings,animal fur, small branches. Native people of the past hunted, fished, and farmed.