No, that is still wrong. Many ancient sites of the Old World had extensively developed copper metallurgical processes, including smelting. One of the oldest was the Kirbat Hamra Ifdan, in modern day Jordan. This place had a highly sophisticated copper foundry dating back to atleast 2700 BC.
Please stop repeating unsubstantiated tribal folklore as fact, especially when it flies in the face of highly well-documented and scholarly research from the Old World.
I think you don't understand what the first metal smelters faced up in Wisconsin. First of all they had tens of thousands of acres of NATIVE COPPER ORE on the surface of the ground. It spread out from this area West and North to Lake Superior.
Going from that source to "smelting" as we understand the term was a trivial problem.
The folks in the Old World were not as well blessed and found themselves having to first pound the ore out of rock.
This is not Indian lore ~ and NOTHING has been passed down by word of mouth for that long a period anywhere.
There are a sufficiency of archaeological studies of the Oconto site that there's no reason anyone should be uninformed about them.