| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Ohio's First Peoples. By James H. O'Donnell III. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. xii, 176 pp. Cloth, $36.95, ISBN 0-8214-1524-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8214-1525-5.)
James O'Donnell III, the Andrew U. Thomas Professor of History at Marietta College, has created a brief overview of American Indian settlements in Ohio from approximately ten thousand years ago to the removal of the Wyandots from the state in 1843. As such, Ohio's First Peoples serves as a useful introduction to the history of American Indians in the state.	1
O'Donnell begins his story with the imaginative archaeological surveys of Rufus Putnam, a central player in the Ohio Company of Associates who speculated in Ohio land following the American Revolution. Putnam first articulated the moundbuilder myth, which credited a lost European civilization with building the mounds rather than the Adena and Hopewell peoples who dominated Ohio from 500 B.C. to A.D. 500. Putnam's work as a land surveyor and engineer in the early republic made him the inveterate enemy of the Shawnees and their Ohio Indian neighbors. Putnam thus created archaeology about Native peoples as he worked to make way for American settlements. O'Donnell moves beyond Putnam by providing a worthwhile survey of the archaeological literature on Ohio, but he stops short of linking Putnam's white supremacy to the Indian wars that he played a role in provoking.	. . .

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