[2banana]

I know it is hard to believe, but before Indians were running casinos and selling cigarettes tax-free in North America, they were a stone-age people. They had not learned to domesticate animals, they had no written language, they used only stone tools and they had not even yet invented the wheel. They had never seen a horse, a metal knife or a plow before Columbus. They also commonly practiced slavery, genocide and cannibalism against other tribes.

No matter how many times liberals watch "Dances with Wolves" and "Pocahontas," it will not change these facts.

[green iguana]

Actually, some of their best cutting tools (at least those of the indians of the Northeast) were made of shell. Extremely sharp (tho' brittle.) Good enough to shave with. Also used as tweezers, for skinning, etc.

[Sam Cree]

"They had never seen a horse"

That may not be true. I have read of a theory that horses had existed in North America, but that Indians had hunted them to extinction, using them as a food source.