NATIVE ROOTS - HOW THE INDIANS ENRICHED AMERICA

NATIVE ROOTS

HOW THE INDIANS ENRICHED AMERICA

by

Jack Weatherford

Published by

Ballantine Books

ISBN 0 449 90713 9    Pages 310    Weight 280 gms

Jack Weatherford was the author of Indian Givers where he "revealed how the cultural, social, and political practices of the American Indians transformed the world.  Now in Native Roots, Weatherford focuses on the vital role that Indian civilizations have played in the making of the United States."

"Conventional American history holds that the white settlers of the New World re-created the societies they had known in England, France, and Spain.  But, as Weatherford so brilliantly shows, Europeans in fact grafted their civilization onto the deep and nourishing roots of Native American customs and beliefs.  Beneath the glass-and-steel skyscrapers of contemporary Manhattan lies an Indian fur-trading post.  Behind the tactics of modern guerrilla warfare are the lightning-fast maneuvers of the Plains Indians.  Our place names, our farming and hunting techniques, our crafts, the very blood that flows in our veins - all derive from American Indians in ways that we consistently fail to see.  In Weatherford's words, "Without understanding Native Americans, we will never know who we are today in America"."

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