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The closest thing to Indians had to butter was the occasional bear grease after a kill.
There was no dairy whatsoever and no bacon grease because no pigs either. They were so so fuqed.
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The little bit of rancid bear grease they had was smeared on their bodies in an attempt to shield from thick clouds of mosquitoes. Yes they had tons of bugs, not the good ones.
Honeybees? Nope. Those were only in Europe.
But didn’t they have chickens & eggs to sustain themselves?
Nope. Chickens were tropical birds not yet seen in the Americas, and the Indians didn’t know how to coop & domesticate other birds for eggs & meat.
No pigs. No chickens. No cows. No horses. No metal.
Literally stuck in the Stone Age.
No ingenuity to advance themselves with the meager resources they had available.
They had tons of huge mighty trees but could not harvest them meaningfully for lumber and building because there was no metal to form tools to cut trees, other than some small sticks & saplings they could fell with their hands. Or wait for trees to keel over.
Probably for the best, if the savages had saws en masse they would have destroyed the forests completely, like they destroyed their native horse population several thousand years ago by eating them all to extinction.
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Separating the continents like that & cutting off communication for millions of years was a cruel fate.
Europe & Asia were able to share technology and somewhat evolve through the Bronze Age & Iron Age more or less together, not left in the dust like cavemen.
It would have been less cruel if the continents had no temporary land bridge, and if there were no 75 original mongoloid humans that served to populate the Americas, so that they were completely untouched when Europeans arrived.
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Land O Lakes figured people would rather see a cute Indian women on their package of butter instead of some bearded Amish guy.
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