Indian GiversHow the Indians of the Americas Transformed the WorldThis article attempts to explain Jack Weatherford's Indian Givers by examining the history of Native Americans' connection to many agricultural products that would not have been produced without the knowledge that the Indians gave. Weatherford further establishes that it is because of these advances in agriculture that the United States has remained a strong contender in the global market and that without the influence of Native Americans on the early settlers these early immigrants to America would not have survived. Through his work, “Indian Givers: How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World,” Weatherford offers insight to a people that most people have not considered. The article concludes that Weatherford's purpose is to demonstrate that Native Americans have been a misrepresented and forgotten people when the history of North America is discussed. This book is complete with some unfounded facts and assumptions, explores the gifts of Native Americans to the world and provides that the credibility of actual information has however been hidden and even denied by Eurocentric historians who have never given Indians credit for any great cultural result. From silver and cash capitalism to piracy, slavery and the rise of multinational corporations, to the food revolution, agricultural technology, the culinary revolution, drugs, architecture and urban planning, our debt to indigenous peoples of America is huge. The mining of gold and silver by indigenous peoples made capitalism possible. Working in mines, mints, and plantations with African slaves, they began the industrial revolution that later spread to Europe and around the world. They provided the cotton, rubber, dyes, and related 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 anesthetizing ability of coca and the power of a thousand other drugs that made modern medicine and pharmacology possible. Drugs, together with improved agriculture, have made the population explosion of recent centuries possible. They developed and perfected 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 cut paths through the jungles and deserts, laid the roads, and built the cities on which modern America is based.