Native roots : how the Indians enriched America / Jack Weatherford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weatherford, Jack, 1946-

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America.

United States--Civilization--Indian influences.

United States.

North America--Civilization--Indigenous influences.

North America.

United States--Civilization.

Civilization--Indian influences.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[10], 310 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Ballantine Books Edition

Distribution:

New York : Published by Ballantine Books,

Place of Publication:

New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1992.

Contents:

The road to Tuktoyaktuk

Pyramids on the Mississippi

Women (and a few men) who led the way

Firestorm

The tree in American history

Hunting

How the fur trade shaped the American economy

Beads and buildings

Corn, cotton, and tobacco

The trade in Indian slaves

Fishing for food and profit

Guerrillas and warriors

America's patron saint

Americanization of the English language

The naming of North America

North America's Inca historian

Intellectual mining

Mixed-blood nation

The white roots of peace.

Notes:

A Fawcett Columbine Book.

Originally published by Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991.

Cover design by Kristine V. Mills.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index.

Minnesota Book Award for Non-Fiction, 1992.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

ISBN:

0449907139

9780449907139

OCLC:

26755741