Well, you could always argue that they figured out how to do green energy faster and skipped the entire mineral dependence right off the bat.

I think you would just have a hard time getting mining into a lot of the traditional tribal communities because they moved around too much depending upon climate. Up north at least. However, Cherokee did span all the way from Atlanta up to West Virginia, across out to Tennesse and down to New Orleans. And they were settlement based so they might figure out coal and then jump to water power & then solar.

I think the Ojibwe speaking nations would probably figure out wind power pretty quick given how fast and hard the wind moves off the plains.