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Q.:
There is one part of the film I didn't quite understand. The whole war at the end of the movie was to stop the humans to bomb the Tree of Souls. However, wasn't that tree already destroyed by the dozers the morning after they "mate for life"? Also, how was Jake with the tree praying before the war when it was destroyed? The Na'Vi look like a lot of different native peoples on Earth, with their war paint and their weapons and so on. Were they actually based on Earth tribes? So the Na'Vi are hunters but they don't kill too many animals. What's their main food source? Why do the Na’vi so readily accept Jake into their culture?

A.:
Avatar is a fantasy in which the history of colonization is rewritten, but it a fantasy specifically for white people living with a heavy dose of liberal guilt. And it is one that, ultimately, marginalizes indigenous peoples and affirms white supremacy.
If it were a fantasy for, say, the American Indian population in the U.S., the story might go a little differently. In that fantasy there would be no Sully character. It’s that simple.