http://car.utsa.edu/prehistoricrecipes.htm
"Afterwards, the cooking rocks were lifted out of the fire one at a time, using large sticks made of young cedar or oak saplings which resembled oversized chopsticks."
Off course everything is bigger in texas. But really it's such ancient history I think it's all speculation at this point. The fork really took off after 1492.
It only makes sense that Indians would have used sticks of sorts for eating tools. A self learned thing. it's a bit of a stretch to say they it was brought over from Chinese ancestry.
Your probably right leaving it to mere speculation. Little Ray- The Chinese weren't known for their ship building capabilities. I think I read something somewhere that mentioned they were somewhat fearful of the sea. I'll probably figure out where after the thread dies...