Highly unlikely. First, there is no record of any Jews showing up in pre-Columbian America either among the Jews or among the goyim. No tribe has a tradition of having migrated across the ocean. All genetic and linguistic evidence suggests the indigenous people of the Americas came from northern Asia (i.e. Siberia), not the middle east. — It is possible a handful of Jews made it to America “early”, since there might have been a Phoenician ship that made the trip and a Jew might have tagged along, and it is possible that in the 1500s there might have been Jews on a Spanish ship who if shipwrecked would probably prefer living among the Indians than the Spanish (for obvious reasons). — Thus if you know a pure-blood American Indian you can ask him to be your Shabbos Goy with no danger that the person may actually be Jewish and not knowing it.
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