Ah, but did it put the rubber on the road?
Olmecs, of course. They had rubber shoes.
I’m afraid that Jack Daniels explains much of this thread.
Ah Jack Daniels. Just imagine those poor pioneers without a substance to make whiskey, and suddenly addopting the Indigenous maize to make the BEST whiskey of all. Poor Scots that continue drinking barley whiskey.
I think he’s saying that indigenous Americans invented the Schwinn ten-speed.
Actually, Schwinn is Mohegan for “A vehicle composed of two wheels held in a frame one behind the other, propelled by pedals and steered with handlebars attached to the front wheel”
I hope you’re kidding if what you’re saying is that Jack Daniels is the BEST whiskey of all.
Native Americans invented handlebars?
Natives invented many things. More than what the western centered education usually teaches. For instance, I hope you guys never have to try what they invented and is used in hospitals.
And casinos! Think how many fewer casinos we’d have.
Natives didn’t invented casinos, but discovered a way to exploit white men game addiction in theirs favour this time.
Yeah, those poor fools off drinking their single malt… they should obviously just get a bottle of jack and send the single malt to me. For, ya know, disposal.
Yeap. Just imagine the effect of Scot whiskey that make same pipers to wear skirts.
Most of the Native Americans I know don’t grow thick facial hair.
Yes, but they mostly used it for toys or possibly ceremonial objects. They never put the wheel to any use in transporting goods or people, or even as a potter’s wheel. Of course, the failure to use it in transport was partly due to the lack of draft animals, but this doesn’t explain the lack of use for making pottery. And you would think that wheels could have found some limited use in human-powered transport. Why exactly the indigenous societies of the Americas failed to put wheels to more use when they clearly knew of them in principle is a bit of a mystery.
I think my favorite part is something that pinguin didn’t even mention. Natural rubber is often called India rubber, because for most commercial purposes it was grown outside of South America. Yes, this great, mighty gift to the world was so powerful and important that… they never really managed to successfully capitalize on it in South America until well into the 20th century. By which time synthetic rubber was coming into vogue.
It was those other Indians we have to thank for most of the commercial harvesting techniques. 
… I know. Try a little harder and you may see the irony.
That’s more a consolation prize. The white man still won the big game.
White People: #1 from 1492-2030! Woo!
I always hated that argument! Except it was “the poor kids in Africa”.
Whatever, Mom. Eating your rubber meatloaf is* not *helping anyone. :o
(Am I the only one immaturely giggling about “rubbers” right now?)
It was also a disastrous failure.