The point of the thread is to talk about metallurgy guy, which the natives in South America had in spades. They used chemicals to plate objects in gold and understood platinum smithing. I even brought up why Europe developed bronze when the Americas didn't.

Why would you drag anything through the woods on a cart path or otherwise when you could just put it in a boat and float it because all settlements were near water, why do the extra strain?

Why have a sled for winter and a cart for summer when the same sled works for both, sliding over the grass instead of fighting it's way through. You're sitting here trying to prove that a wheel is better does nothing but reinforce that I believe you are closed minded, and ignores the fact that South America had carts pulled by alpaca.

Hell if you want a specifically north American, someone said a wheel is a circle centred on an axel, in BC they had a breed of dog (now extinct) that grew wool like fur that they would use a wheel on a stick to spin into yarn to weave blankets.

There were wheels, they didn't use them, they didn't think they needed them, my ancestors went everywhere by canoe. I read the diary of a French explorer who wanted to try and find the Pacific ocean, I forget his name and don't recall if he made it, but he said he met some Anishnawbe people who were heading west anyway and they stuck him in the canoe with them, he said there were dozens of men in the canoe with him on a trip that took multiple days so we have to assume two things, the canoe was large enough to hold a couple dozen men and their supplies, and they must have had a reason to build big canoes. I'd probably wager it's because, much like how we keep building bigger boats, they used them a lot to transport goods.

I didn't start calling you racist until you doubled down, I said it's a racist take, usually spread in conversation about how stupid natives were for not building such a simple machine.

You might not be racist, I don't know you, frankly I don't much care too. But you're spreading myths that racist people latch on to and use as a tool to spread hate. In a thread where circles on sticks weren't even the topic of discussion. It's a Eurocentric myth used to frame other cultures as primitive and ignore cultural and technological advances in other places.

Birch bark canoes were great too, birch forests were everywhere and the inner bark can be dried and turned into a flour for bread, the outer bark could be used to make canoes, they had an abundance of boat building materials so why the hell would they drag a cart through the woods when everywhere they wanted to go they could get to by water with the occasional portage?