Crooked deals and broken treaties : how American Indians were displaced by White settlers in the Cuyahoga Valley / by John Tully.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tully, John A. (John Andrew), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Ohio--Cuyahoga River Valley--History--18th century.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Ohio--Cuyahoga River Valley--History--19th century.

Frontier and pioneer life.

History.

Cuyahoga River Valley (Ohio)--History--18th century.

Cuyahoga River Valley (Ohio).

Cuyahoga River Valley (Ohio)--History--19th century.

Frontier and pioneer life--Ohio--Cuyahoga River Valley.

Ohio--Cuyahoga River Valley.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

133 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Monthly Review Press, [2016]

Summary:

Long before the smokestacks and factories of industrial Akron rose from Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley, the region was a place of tense confrontation. Beginning in the early 19th-century, white settlers began pushing in from the east, lured by the promise of cheap (or free) land. They inevitably came into conflict with the current inhabitants, American Indians, who had thrived in the valley for generations or had already been displaced by settlement along the Eastern Seaboard. Here, the story of the country's founding and development played out in all its ignominy and drama, as American Indians lost their land, and often their lives, while white settlers expanded a nation. Historian and novelist John Tully draws on contemporary accounts and a wealth of studies to produce this elegiac history of the Cuyahoga Valley. He pays special attention to how settlers' notions of private property-and the impulse to own and develop the land-clashed with more collective social organizations of American Indians. He also documents the ecological cost of settlement, long before heavy industry laid waste to the region. Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties is an impassioned accounting of the cost of "progress," and an insistent reminder of the barbarism and deceit that fueled the rise of the United States. Book jacket.

Contents:

The settlement of Summit County: the early years

The ecological cost of transformation

The Cuyahoga Valley on the eve of White settlement

Over the Alleghenies: an unfolding calamity

The embers of an almost estinguished race.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781583675663

1583675663

9781583675670

1583675671

OCLC:

907094574