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Anderdon is an adventure in Aboriginal & Pioneer History... a social history of settlement on the western Lake Erie watershed. Anderdon celebrates indigenous peoples, immigrant homesteaders, African-American refugees and their descendants. Anderdon was once a First Nations Reserve – the aboriginal home of Wyandot, Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawatomie. It was located on the Canadian side of the Detroit River opposite Trenton, Michigan. During the War of 1812, these Nations disintegrated into a civil war, with some warriors fighting for the United States and others for Britain. After the War, the British broke their promises of greater territories and self-government, and the size of the Reserve was greatly reduced. In the 1840s, many of these peoples were pushed off their land and relocated from Canada to the present day states of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. The tide of immigration that followed brought in British loyalists and gentry, French-speaking settlers, American Civil War skedaddlers, Irish famine refugees, fugitive slaves, and army pensioners. Tensions between these cultural groups drove public policy and produced election fraud, interracial violence, larceny and murder. Heroes and villains brought unexpected changes to commerce, politics and criminal justice that had an impact across North America. The book is large (429 pages – 8.5 x 11 inches) and rests on informative primary sources, personal journals, military records, court transcripts and contemporary newspaper accounts. There are rarely seen maps, over one hundred photographs, and numerous government documents. The 32-page Index makes searching easy.
