Just because there were women warriors sometimes doesn’t mean it was common. It can be both a thing that wasn’t normal but also wasn’t unheard of. Overall, the further south and the further east you go in the Plains, the less-equal women were.
They definitely weren’t “progressive” as we’d call it today but they also had some things that we’d consider that way. You can’t really apply modern political terms to things from over 300 years ago and expect to get a 1-to-1 analogue.
They weren’t so hierarchical and even the lowest were cared for and not even the chiefs were obscenely wealthy. If you wanna apply modern day politics stuff then that’s progressive I guess, but it’s really not something you should apply because their entire way of life was so different that you just shouldn’t be trying to paste on modern-day politics to their way of life.
