Like with the elephants, the Smithsonian experts are sure no tribe in America had a language - ever:
...whenever an alphabet of any kind is veritably discovered, it must have had a foreign origin. By granting belief to anything contravening this state of art, we at first deceive ourselves, and then lend our influence to diffuse error. - Schoolcraft (John Campbell "The Ancient Literature of America," Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Second Series, Vol. II, 1896, pp. 47)
Thus, Mesotheorists fall in line with established thought albeit contrary to the facts.
Evidences:
To admit that even a single tribe in North America had a written language would upset established thought, remove one more excuse by Mesotheorists and bring much needed respect.