The American Indians were the equivalent of slightly more advanced hunter-gatherers of thousands of years earlier in Europe.
We saw more technologically advanced civilizations in ancient Egypt and the Babylonians than when the Pilgrims arrived in the New World. Ancient Greek and Roman technology and advancements would have blown away the Indians.
"Original founding fathers" my ass. They just happened to wander over here across an Asian landbridge and didn't bother to leave.