Indeed. The colonists were helped by the worst smallpox plague in history, wiping out up to 80% of the native population. Imagine the Mayflower coming face-to-face with the native Americans at full numerical strength. They wouldn't have had the time to shit their pants.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'