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A month or so ago I was reading Lorna Byrne, an Irish Christian mystic who has frequent contact with angels. Her second book, Stairways to Heaven, has this to say on the topic:

Americans don't need the past of others to bolster themselves. They are a different race, in many ways more advanced. They may be made up of a mixture of people from different nationalities, but these people have blended together to form a new race. [...] Americans are a chosen people, even though many people in the world may not be happy to hear this. They have been chosen and gathered from all around the globe by a special powerful force of angels. This powerful force of angels has driven the development of America. People who went to America were to some extent chosen, including—strange as this may sound—those brought there as slaves. The angels have been gathering people of all nationalities to this one continent to help fulfil mankind's destiny. [...]

The Native Americans are a part of this new race. The people who were chosen to come to America by ship didn't understand that Native Americans were an integral part of the new world. The angels have told me that they worked hard to try and stop massacres, but we humans can behave disastrously at times. We are prone to think that we are superior to other races and Native Americans suffered greatly in the past. They are still kept on the outside today. This needs to be changed. Native Americans need to be drawn into the mainstream. They have a spirituality that is different and is needed for the evolution of mankind, for the body and soul to become one.

[...] Outrageous though it may seem, [slavery] had a part in making sure that the right mix of people were brought to the new world. The slave traders never realised that they were being used to bring to America people who had been chosen—people who could never have come to America by other means. This was a part of America's path. This does not excuse turning another person into a slave, taking their freedom or dignity, whipping them or working them to the bone. Yet, hard as this might sound, it was a part of these individuals' paths. And these individuals and their descendants are a vital part of what makes America what it is and what it will become. [...]

That is, she seems to agree with you, that the way forward isn't blind adherence to past tradition or obsessive innovation, but rather the mingling of all and sundry: European and Indigenous spirituality blended together to form something new and powerful and beautiful, despite all the difficulties involved in getting there.