Timothy G Anderson; Brian Schoen Book sku-2379744285

Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond, part of New Approaches to Midwestern History, is a hardcover All Books title by Timothy G Anderson; Brian Schoen (SKU sku-2379744285). Contributors from archaeology, education, history, geography and politics examine how people settled the resource-rich Ohio Valley and contested control of it, with consequences for the formation of the United States and world history.

The book begins with the region's first inhabitants, whose earthworks left an archaeological record that interested later settlers and still interests scholars. It follows Native Americans who migrated from the East and North in the eighteenth century, their trade with Europeans, their navigation of wars and their efforts to preserve national identities amid violent attempts to remove them from their lands.

The Northwest Ordinance, the Ohio Company of Associates and early road building appear within a history of competing ideas of nationhood and complicated relations with Indian peoples. Chapters also address apple-growing culture, education, African American settlers and migration from the East and Europe, including tensions within Ohio's early multiethnic settlements.

The volume calls for recovering the often-overlooked history of non-White people displaced through settler colonialism.