They didn't explicitly saying it, but the implication is that some new system came into play when they Europeans arrived, otherwise why bring them up at all? I was pointing out that it was always winner take all.

Respectfully, i don't think that sentiment is present in the original comment.

If anything, the comment is saying the opposite. Winners write history and get to name stuff. Often names just stick even after territory changes hands, but its undoubtedly true that a lot of place names in usa & canada are in english because britian "won". If france won more things would have french names. If spain won spanish. Undoubtedly if various indigenous groups "won" than a lot more things would have indigenous names. This doesn't make indigenous people special, it makes them the same as any other nation-state type group.