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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461094003321

Autore

Lambert Leonard Carson

Titolo

Up from these hills [[electronic resource] ] : memories of a Cherokee boyhood / / Leonard Carson Lambert Jr. ; as told to Michael Lambert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln [Neb.], : University of Nebraska Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8032-6793-2

1-280-54710-3

9786613596208

0-8032-3770-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Indians of the Southeast

Altri autori (Persone)

LambertMichael C. <1960->

Disciplina

975.004/97557

B

Soggetti

Cherokee Indians

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-197).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Preface; Forethought's; Smith-Lambert Family Genealogy; Roots; The Cove; Tennessee; Mentor School; Mars Hill; Going Home; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Born into a storied but impoverished family on the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Leonard Carson Lambert Jr.'s candid memoir is a remarkable story and an equally remarkable flouting of the stereotypes that so many tales of American Indian life have engendered. Up from These Hills provides a grounded, yet poignant, description of what it was like to grow up during the 1930's and 1940's in the mountains of western North Carolina and on a sharecropper's farm in eastern Tennessee. Lambert straightforwardly describes his independent, hardworking, and stubborn parents;