Sources
If you are interested in learning more about Wayne County’s Indigenous history, the history of local history, or how you can write Indigenous history, see the sources below. Ebooks are linked where possible, although you can also check your local library for these titles. Sources are from resources in footnotes unless otherwise noted. Throughout the exhibit, other digital references are directly hyperlinked.
If you have a question or clarification about any of the sources used, please contact me.
Local Historical Works
Local historical works that are analyzed in this exhibit:
New England, the birthplace of American local history:
- Adams, Nathaniel. Annals of Portsmouth. HathiTrust Digital Library. Portsmouth, MA: C. Norris, 1825.
- Abbot, Abiel. History of Andover from Its Settlement to 1829. Internet Archive. Andover, MA: Flagg and Gould, 1829.
Ohio and Wayne County (oldest to newest):
- Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of Ohio; Containing a Collection of the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Relating to Its General and Local History: With Descriptions of Its Counties, Principal Towns and Villages. Illustrated by 177 Engravings. Cincinnati, OH: Pub. for the author by Bradley & Anthony, 1848.
- Taylor, James Wickes. History of the State of Ohio. United States: H.W. Derby & Company, 1854.
- History of Ashland County, Ohio. United States: Williams, 1863.
- Jeffries, John P. The Natural History of the Human Races, with Their Primitive Form and Origin, Primeval Distribution, Distinguishing Peculiarities; Antiquity, Works of Art, Physical Structure, Mental Endowments and Moral Bearing. Internet Archive. New York, NY: E.O. Jenkins, 1869.
- Douglass, Ben. History of Wayne County, Ohio, from the Days of the Pioneers and the First Settlers to the Present Time. Indianapolis, Ind: R. Douglass, 1878.
- Bowen, B.F., ed. History of Wayne County, Ohio, Google Books 1. Vol. 1. 2 vols. Indianapolis, IN: B.F. Bowen & Co., 1910.
- Historic Heritage of Wayne County, Ohio: Being a Directory of 256 Historical Houses and Buildings. Wooster, OH: Wayne County Historical Society (Ohio), 1976.
- Wilger Williams, Lindsey. Old Paths in the New Purchase. Wooster, OH: Atkinson Printing, 1983. Available for purchase from the Wayne County Historical Society of Ohio gift shop.
- Locher, Paul. When Wooster Was a Whippersnapper: Two Hundred (or so) Yarns AboutWooster for Two Hundred Years. Wooster, Ohio: Wooster Daily Record, 2008.
- Gasbarre, Ann. “The Story of Wooster’s Early Years.” Daily Record, Jan 10, 2020.
History of Local History and Phrenology:
Sources that provide more background on where local history comes from in the United States:
- Blegen, Theodore Christian. James Wickes Taylor: A Biographical Sketch. Internet Archive. Minnesota History Bulletin, 1915.
- Commemorative Biographical Record of Wayne County, Ohio, Containing. Chicago, IL: JH Beers and Company, 1889.
- Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. New York, NY: Norton, 1996.
- Hill, George William. History of Ashland County, Ohio. Internet Archive. Williams Bros., 1880.
- Kammen, Carol. On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why, and What It Means. 2nd ed. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2003.
- Menand, Louis. “Morton, Agassiz, and the Origins of Scientific Racism in the United States.” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, no. 34 (2001): 110–13.
- “Phrenology and ‘Scientific Racism’ in the 19th Century.” Real archaeology. Vassar College, March 5, 2017.
- Russo, David J. Keepers of Our Past: Local Historical Writing in the United States,1820s-1930s. New York, NY: Greenwood, 1988.
- Joseph P. Smith, “Henry Howe the Historian” (Ohio Archeological and Historical Publications), 311-337.
Myths in Local History
Resources that discuss myths about Indigenous history that are present in local history and other forms of American culture:
- Jentz, Paul. Seven Myths of Native American History. Edited by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2018.
- O’Brien, Jean M. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England, University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
For additional myths not discussed in this exhibit:
Indigenous History of Wayne County
Pre-Contact History
Resources on pre-contact history in Ohio and Wayne County:
- Kardulias, Nick, David Taggart, Brittany Rancour, Nigel Brush , and Roger Rowe . “ A Small Prehistoric Mound Group (33-WE-3) in Wayne County, Northeast Ohio.” Pennsylvania Archaeologist 84 (2014): 62–75.
- Kern, Kevin F., and Gregory S. Wilson. Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
- “The Digital Precontact Experience.” ArcGIS StoryMaps. Ohio History Connection, August 4, 2021.
Contact Era Indigenous History
Delaware History
Books and websites specific to the history of the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, and other Delaware groups:
- Alligood, Nekole. “History.” Delaware Nation, November 1, 2022.
- Licht, Walter, Mark Lloyd, J.M. Duffin, and Mary D. McConaghy. “The Original People and Their Land: The Lenape, Pre-History to the 18th .” West Philadelphia Collaborative History – The Original People and Their Land: The Lenape, Pre-History to the 18th Century, 2008.
- Thompson Dean, Nora. “Some of the Ways of the Delaware Indian Women.” Official Site of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, 2016.
- Weslager, C. A. The Delaware Indians; A History. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2007.
- Weslager, C. A., and Lewis Cass. The Delaware Indian Westward Migration: With the Texts of Two Manuscripts, 1821-22, Responding to General Lewis Cass’s Inquiries about Lenape Culture and Language. Wallingford, PA: Middle Atlantic Press, 1978.
Shawnee History
Books and websites specific to the Shawnee Tribe, Eastern Shawnee, and other Shawnee groups:
- “Eastern Shawnee History.” Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, 2022.
- “History of the People.” History – the Shawnee tribe. Shawnee Nation.
- Kruzman, Diana. “Ohio Indigenous Sacred Sites Become a Flashpoint.” The Washington Post. WP Company, December 24, 2021.
- “Shawnee Indians.” Shawnee Indians – Ohio History Central. Ohio History Connection. Accessed December 3, 2022.
Wyandotte History
Books and websites specific to the Wyandotte Nation and other Wyandotte and Huron groups:
- Clarke, Peter D. “Traditional History of the Wyandotts.” Wyandotte Nation, 1870.
- “History.” Wyandotte Nation, September 26, 2022.
- Stansfield, Rick. “Wyandotte (Tribe).” Oklahoma Historical Society. Accessed December 3, 2022.
- Yeakley, Sheldon. “‘LIVING BEYOND THE SKY’: THE LONG REMOVALS OF THE WYANDOT INDIANS, 1816-1894.” Thesis, Oklahoma State University, 2019.
- Wheeler, James. “Wheeler Memoirs .” Wyandotte Nation. Accessed December 3, 2022.
- “Wyandot Indians.” Wyandot Indians – Ohio History Central. Accessed December 3, 2022.
Treaties
Treaties that impacted Indigenous people in Wayne County and Ohio. Note: This list of treaties is not an exhaustive list of treaties made between the Wyandotte, Shawnee, and Delaware and the United States.
- Treaty of Logstown (1752)
- Treaty of Easton (1758)
- Treaty of Paris (1763)
- Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768)
- Treaty with the Delawares (1778)
- Treaty of Fort McIntosh (1785)
- Treaty of Greenville (1795)
- Treaty of Fort Industry (1805)
- Congressional records of the Treaty of Fort Industry: US Serial Set Number 4015, 56th Congress, 1st Session, pgs. 666-667
- Treaty of Ghent (1814)
- Treaty of Fort Meigs (1817)
- St. Mary’s Treaty (1818)
- Agreement with the Delawares and Wyandotte (1843)
General History
Books and websites on contact-era Indigenous history in Ohio and the United States:
- Selected chapters from Beatty-Medina, Charles, and Melissa Rinehart. Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes: 1700-1850. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2012:
- Miller, Sarah E. “‘Foolish Young Men’ and the Contested Ohio Territory, 1783-1795” pp. 35-54.
- Schutt, Amy C. “Delawares in Eastern Ohio after the Treaty of Greenville: The Goshen Mission in Context” pp. 111-136.
- Buss, James. “The Politics of Indian Removal on the Wyandot Reserve, 1817-1843.” pp. 167-194.
- Booth, Russell H. The Tuscarawas Valley in Indian Days, 1750-1797: Original Journals & Old Maps. Cambridge, OH: Gomber House Press, 1994.
- Bowes, John P. Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal. United States: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
- “Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center.” Student Records | Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center. Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections, September 10, 1879.
- “Greentown: A Story of 1812 in Contemporary Documents,” Thomas Stephen Neel. Available for purchase from the Ashland Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society.
- Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus. History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States. United States: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1881.
- Hixson, Walter L. American Settler Colonialism: A History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Hurt, R. Douglas. The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest. Indiana University Press, 1996.
- McConnell, Michael N., A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples, 1724-1774. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
- Mucher, Christen. “Introduction.” In Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession, 1–18. University of Virginia Press, 2022.
- “Native Americans of Wayne County, Ohio.” Wayne County, Ohio Online Resource Center. Wayne County Public Library, 2021.
- Olmstead, Earl P. Blackcoats among the Delaware: David Zeisberger on the Ohio Frontier. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1991.
- Stockwell, Mary. The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Indians. Yardley, United States: Westholme Publishing, 2015.
- Silver, Peter Rhoads. Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. United Kingdom: W.W. Norton, 2009.
- Wilcox, Frank. Ohio Indian Trails: Pictorial Survey of the Indian Trails of Ohio Arranged from the Works of Frank Wilcox. Ashland, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2015 .
Other Resources:
Resources on how to write a land acknowledgement, Indigenous land/sovereignty, and local research help:
- Wayne County Library’s Community History Archive (newspaper archive)
- “Beyond Land Acknowledgment: A Guide.” Native Governance Center, August 24, 2022.
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. United States: Milkweed Editions, 2013.
- “Native Americans of Wayne County, Ohio.” Wayne County, Ohio Online Resource Center, 2021.
- Native Land Digital, October 8, 2021.
Ohio Organizations:
Ohio-based organizations for Indigenous people of any tribal affiliation: