The Best Land by Susan A. Brewer HARDBACK 9780801452598

The Best LandFour Hundred Years of Love and Betrayal on Oneida Territory\nAuthor(s): Susan A. Brewer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Three Hills\nISBN-13: 9780801452598, 978-0801452598\nSynopsis\nIn Susan A. Brewer's fascinating The Best Land, she recounts the story of the parcel of central New York land on which she grew up. Brewer and her family had worked and lived on this land for generations when the Oneida Indians claimed that it rightfully belonged to them. Why, she wondered, did she not know what had happened to this place her grandfather called the best land. Here, she tells its story, tracing over the past four hundred years the two familiesher own European settler family and the Oneida/Mohawk family of Polly Dennywho called the best land home.\n\n Situated on the passageway to the west, the ancestral land of the Oneidas was coveted by European colonizers and the founders of the Empire State. The Brewer and Denny families took.