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Indian Givers
Jack Weatherford · 1989 · 368 pages
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After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, our democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology, and in this astonishing, ground-breaking book takes a giant step toward recovering a true American history.
About the Author
Jack Weatherford is the author of the bestselling Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Crown, 2004), Savages and Civilization (Crown, 1993), Native Roots (Crown, 1990), and Indian Givers (Crown, 1988). He teaches at Macalester College and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, our democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology, and in this astonishing, ground-breaking book takes a giant step toward recovering a true American history.
About the Author
Jack Weatherford is the author of the bestselling Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Crown, 2004), Savages and Civilization (Crown, 1993), Native Roots (Crown, 1990), and Indian Givers (Crown, 1988). He teaches at Macalester College and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Ryan Holiday
“This book 'Indian Givers' not the most politically correct title I will grant you that [...] I just seriously found this book utterly fascinating. It's very rare that I read a book and almost nothing in it had I heard before, did I know about and that's what I felt was happening on page after page of this book.”
Wolfgang Blau
“Rick Santorum should have read this book about the profound influence Native Americans had on the US Constitution and thus also on the French Revolution and European democracies of today:”↗
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