Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties: How American Indians Were Displaced by White Settlers in the Cuyahoga Valley

by John A. Tully

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583675663
• ISBN13: 9781583675663
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"