Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World - Weatherford, Jack

Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World by Weatherford, Jack

Format: Trade Paperback

Published by Ballantine Books, 1989

After 500 years, the world’s huge debt to the wisdom of the Native Americans has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces the crucial contributions made by the Native Americans 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.