For all the bleating about the poor Indians...
I have a single question...Can anyone point to the widespread use of the wheel by these people? Why had the other civilizations that existed prior to and concurrent to thise civilizations widely adopted the wheel, and yet these people had not invented it for themselves for their own use?
perhaps as the Syrians related to YO YO as late as 1933....they were superstitious and afraid that a wheel would cause the Earth to stand still...???
Not surprisingly, there is a very fine museum for pre-Colubian Indian artifacts at the University of New Mexico.
I recall, in particular, a display of toys that had been carved and painstakingly assembled for children to play with.
One of them was composed of a carved donkey pulling a wheeled cart...with a functional axle. It was the only set of wheels in the building...
***For all the bleating about the poor Indians...***
Bleating is right! I remember reading the old books THE INDIAN WHO IS NOT POOR and others by Charles F. Lummis. They portray a very different image of the Pueblo Indians.
Now they all line up and Wah-Wah-Wah! Gimme!
Do you realize there are lots of Indian tribes the US Government NEVER had a war with? They often sided with the Anglo against the hostiles.