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    Indian GiversHow Indians in the Americas Transformed the WorldThis article attempts to explain Jack Weatherford's Indian Givers by examining the history of Native Americans' connection with many agricultural products would not have been produced without knowing that the Indians gave it. Weatherford further states that it was because of these agricultural advancements that the United States remained a serious competitor in the global marketplace and that without the influence of Native Americans on the early settlers, these early immigrants to America would not have survived . Through his book “Indian Givers: How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World,” Weatherford provides insight into a people that most people have neglected to consider. The article concludes that Weatherford's goal is to demonstrate that Native Americans have been a misrepresented and forgotten people when discussing North American history. This book is complete with some facts, unfounded assumptions, explores Native American gifts to the world and gives that The credibility of the information that actually occurred has yet been covered up and even lied to by Eurocentric historians who have never attributed to the Indians deserve any great cultural achievement. From money and money capitalism to piracy, slavery and the birth of corporations, including the food revolution, agricultural technology, culinary revolution, drugs, architecture and urban planning, our debt to the indigenous peoples of America is enormous. The exploitation of gold and silver by indigenous people made capitalism possible. Working in mines, mints, and plantations with African slaves, they sparked the Industrial Revolution that later spread to Europe and around the world. They supplied the cotton, rubber, dyes, and associated chemicals that fueled this new production system. They domesticated and developed the hundreds of varieties of corn, potatoes, cassava and peanuts that feed much of the world today. They discovered the healing powers of quinine, the anesthetic power of coca, and the power of a thousand other drugs through modern medicine and pharmacology. Drugs, combined with improved agriculture, made the population explosion of recent centuries possible. They developed and refined a form of democracy that has been haphazardly and inadequately adopted in many parts of the world. They were the true colonizers of America who blazed the trails through the jungles and deserts, built the roads, and built the cities on which modern America is based..