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Indian Givers

How Native Americans Transformed the World

Based on the book by Jack Weatherford

Capitalism

• Silver and Gold
• First Money Economy
• 100 Year Inflation; silver value fell
• First World Economy
• Forced A Slave Trade from Africa
• First Modern Corporation

How It Started Where It’s Going The Effects

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Industrial Revolution

• American Crops
• The Potato Changed Europe
• Cotton Caused Mechanization
• Cloth Production Prompted Spin

Off Inventions

• Rise of the Middle Class

Wool

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The Food Revolution

• Producing high yields
• Food preservation

methods

• Spread of produce throughout world
• Increased health of population
• Increased military power; fueled slave

trade

• More people emigrated to Americas

Indian Agricultural Technology

• Milpa and Mound Planting
• Girdling
• Genetics and Hybridization
• Prickly Pear Management
• Conuco or Grafting or Cutting
• Fertilizers: guano, anchovies
• Food Processing

The Culinary Revolution

Your Turn

• Choose one recipe from the list below
• Provide the recipe ingredient list and research the following:

Origin of the ingredients Etymology of the words of main ingredients (http://www.etymonline.com) Historical information of the dish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)

• Present your research to the class. You can bring in samples if

you wish!

Indonesian Vegetable Salad with Peanut Dressing Sweet Potato Pie Big Al’s KC BBQ Sauce Serbian Ground Beef, Veggie, and Potato Bake Boston Baked Beans Curry Sauce Lasagna Gazpacho Fish and Chips Succotash Minestrone Jambalaya Brunswick Stew Trail Mix Guacamole

French Fries

• Recipe

Ingredients

– Peeled potatoes sliced into sticks – Vegetable oil

• Potato from Incas

in Andes Mountains

• Oil from plants,

archaeological evidence in extracting oil in Indiana 4000 years ago

French Fries

po·ta·to (pəˈtātō), noun; noun: potato; plural noun: potatoes

• 1. a starchy plant tuber that is one of the most important food crops, cooked and

eaten as a vegetable. "roasted potatoes“ see sweet potato.

• 2. the plant of the nightshade family that produces the potato tubers on

underground runners. Origin mid 16th cent.: from Spanish patata, variant of Taino batata ‘sweet potato.’ The English word originally denoted the sweet potato and gained its current sense in the late 16th cent. Historical Info French and Belgians argue over who first invented them. Thomas Jefferson served “potatoes in the French manner” at the White House in 1802. WWI soldiers eating fried potatoes in Belgium, thinking they were in France called them French fries (only one of many stories) 1940 saw frozen fries, popularized in 1967 when McDonald’s contracted to have all their fries purchased frozen. They are popular in most countries served with anything from curry sauce to ketchup.

Liberty, Anarchism, and The Noble Savage

This portion of the book will be covered in Unit 6 The Great Whirlwind. There is strong evidence that the creation

• f the US Government and Constitution

were influenced by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Homework: Read Chapter 7 and answer the questions.

The Indian Healer

Modern Pharmacology Quinine Tonic water Ipecac Scurvy, Goiter, Exlax Curare Worms, Febrifuge, Emetics, Astringent, Stimulant, Pain Reliever, Balsams Medical Procedures Coca, Soft Drinks, and Other Goodies

Architecture and Urban Planning

• Non-Native architecture is prone to

destruction for earthquakes

• Construction techniques
• Native arches
• Apartment buildings
• Adopted building styles
• Planning settlements and cities
• Place names

Pathfinders

• Water transportation: Canoe, dory,

dugout, kayak, umiak, reed boat, and raft

• Land transportation: dog sled,

toboggan, travois, litters, best road builders

• Roads, bridges

What Were We Lacking?

• NOTHING!

Animal Power Inanimate Energy Sources Metallurgy focused on weaponry Immunity to animal based diseases

What Gave the Europeans the Advantage?

“In the 500 Years Since Columbus’ Voyage…

The people of the world have benefited greatly from the American Indians, but the world may have lost even more than it gained. Information lost with hundreds of cultures and nations may be lost forever.”