nah, the ewoks eventually sold out to 'harvest' their forests so that jedi masters could build really exotic furniture and timber frames with the old growth materials.

i think you are mistaking them for the sand people, or maybe the humans. oh wait, we're already there - its just that its not death star industries that necessarily creates all this trouble, but perhaps the folks who keep them in business... you know, those people all around us, those people just like us.