Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties: How American Indians were Displaced by White Settlers in the Cuyahoga Valley
By John Tully
Monthly Review Press, NYC, 2015
134pp, $19pbk, ISBN 9781583675663
Reviewed by Martin Empson
“This short book is an excellent example of how large scale historical changes can be examined through the microcosm a relatively small geographical area. White settlers profoundly transformed the areas they arrived in. Before their arrival, these areas had been the domain of various Native American tribes who had used the land in radically different ways to the Europeans. The destruction and displacement of those tribes is a key part of Tully’s story. As part of doing this the Europeans completely transformed the whole landscape….”
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