Indian Givers How Native Americans Transformed the World Based on the book by Jack Weatherford
Capitalism Where It’s Going How It Started • Silver and Gold • First Money Economy The Effects • 100 Year Inflation; silver value fell • First World Economy • Forced A Slave Trade from Africa • First Modern Corporation ——
Industrial Revolution • American Crops • The Potato Changed Europe Wool • Cotton Caused Mechanization • Cloth Production Prompted Spin Off Inventions • Rise of the Middle Class ——
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 Indonesian Sweet Big Al’s KC Serbian Boston Baked Vegetable Salad Potato Pie BBQ Sauce Ground Beef, Beans with Peanut Veggie, and Dressing Potato Bake Curry Sauce Lasagna Gazpacho Fish and Chips Succotash Minestrone Jambalaya Brunswick Stew Trail Mix Guacamole • 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!
French Fries • Recipe • Potato from Incas Ingredients in Andes Mountains – Peeled potatoes sliced into sticks • Oil from plants, – Vegetable oil archaeological evidence in extracting oil in Indiana 4000 years ago
French Fries po·ta·to ( pə ˈ tātō ), 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 of 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! What Gave the Europeans the Advantage? Animal Power Inanimate Energy Sources Metallurgy focused on weaponry Immunity to animal based diseases
“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.”
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