ok i'll start from the part where you got your roots of unity as 1, cis(2pi/7), cis(-2pi/7), cis(4pi/7), cis(-4pi/7), cis(6pi/7), cis(-6pi/7).
let w=cis(2pi/7)
(w + w^(-1))(w^2 + w^(-2))(w^3 + w^(-3)) = (2cos(2pi/7))(2cos(4pi/7))(2cos(6pi/7))
by expanding you get...