Indigenous people in what is now Mexico were the first people to domesticate corn 

The oldest human skeleton to be found in the Americas was found in Mexico. The remains date back 13,000 years.

Vanilla was first cultivated by the indigenous people of Mexico

Cacao was also first cultivated by the indigenous people of Mexico which gave us chocolate

Mexico has the largest indigenous population in all of North & South America

Native people of Mexico independently invented the wheel despite claims saying there was no knowledge of it in the pre-colombian Americas

The earliest archaeological evidence of the use of rubber was by the indigenous people of Mexico

The first country in the New World as well as the only one in North America to have an indigenous president is Mexico

Nahuatl, an indigenous language of Mexico, is one of the most (if not the most) spoken indigenous languages in North America with over a million speakers

Turkey’s were first domesticated by the indigenous people of Mexico and all of the commercial domestic turkey varieties today descend from the domestic turkey raised in Mexico

Indigenous people of Mexico had pressurized plumbing before it was introduced to the Americas by Europeans

Their creations -

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.