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AUTHOR: JACK WEATHERFORD

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 WEATHERFORD SO BRILLIANTLY SHOWS, EUROPEANS IN FACT GRAFTED THEIR CIVILIZATION ONTO THE DEEP AND NOURISHING ROOTS OF NATIVE AMERICAN CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS. BENEATH THE GLASS-AND-STEEL SKYSCRAPERS OF CONTEMPORARY MANHATTAN LIES AN INDIAN FUR TRADING POST.

“WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING NATIVE AMERICANS, WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHO WE ARE TODAY IN AMERICA.”

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