Huh. This is sort of weird. If you don't like
"Indians qua savages" or "Indians qua ecologists", why not just have "Indians qua Indians"? The fact that there's two warring stereotypes shouldn't keep a good author from threading between them.

That said, there's been plenty of good distopian fiction where they just do away with the rest of the world. Wasn't V for Vendetta like that?