“Well written, imagery-ridden…A tale of what was, what became, and what is today regarding the Indian relation to the European civilization that ‘grafted’ itself onto this ancient system.’” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)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 anthropologist Jack … anthropologist Jack Weatherford, author of INDIAN GIVERS, brilliantly shows, the Europeans actually grafted their civilization onto the deep and nourishing roots of Native American customs and beliefs. Our place names, our farming and hunting techniques, our crafts, the very blood that flows in our veins–all derive from American Indians ways that we consistently fail to see.
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So important history we did not learn in school.
Jack Weatherford is a great story teller. This and his book Indian Givers are both great.
It’s valuable if for no other reason than to bring forward some of the countless contributions Native Americans have brought to global culture.
Not things you read in high school textbooks but should.
Very interesting
Covered a portion of new world history we were never exsposed to in high school or college .
The overview of new world native people had and continues a major effect on world culture spreading from the Americas around the world !!
Native Roots is an obscure little book* that delves deeply into the cultures of the native tribes of the America, from the Inuits of the far north to the Incas of South America. Author Jack Weatherford examines aspects of their lives and civilizations from diet and housing, dress and transportation, with extensive sections devoted to the ways in …
Learned a lot, but it was too much like a textbook.
When you finish this book it gives you food for thought for a long, long time.
Almost no foreigners and few Americans understand the American dream that is offered to willing citizens in the preamble to the constitution for the USA: private liberty with civic morality; “civic” refers to citizens collaborating to establish and practice statutory justice. Jack Weatherford, in Native Roots, wonderfully empowers Americans to …
Essential history you won’t read anywhere else.