“I can’t remember what indian tribe had the first wheel?”
I do not dispute that the tribes originally were ‘primative’.
So were your ancestors, who ever they were. How far back to you want to go? We’ve got cultures coming to this country today who came from places where the wheel isn’t of value today.
IOW, I can’t give you a logical answer to a nonsensical question.
I’ll let one of the ‘savages’ give you his answer, c. 1830.
Elias Boudinot,(aka Buck OOwatee) as Editor of The Cherokee Phoenix, which was published both in English and Cherokee and read in the East and Europe, captured the Cherokee situation in just a few words.
“Perhaps Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe were only tantalizing us when they encouraged us in the pursuit of agriculture and government. Why were we not told long ago that we could not be permitted to establish a government within the limits of any state? The Cherokees have always had a government of their own. Nothing, however, was said when we were governed by savage laws. Others say it is time for the Cherokees to submit to inevitable destiny.
What Destiny? To be slandered and then butchered? Yes, this is the bitter cup prepared for us by a republican and religious government. We shall drink it to the dregs.”
I do not dispute that the tribes originally were ‘primative’.
So were your ancestors. However they moved up and other people refused to do so see middle east for the last 1000 years.